NGC 6212
NGC 6212
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
422 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 422 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6212 as it looked roughly 422 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
NGC 6195Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4611Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6180Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 6166BSpiral23 million ly
apartIC 4610Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6173Elliptical23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4611Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6180Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 6166BSpiral23 million ly
apartIC 4610Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6173Elliptical23 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).