NGC 6274 NED01
NGC 6274 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
562 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 562 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6274 NED01 as it looked roughly 562 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 6274 NED02Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apartIC 4638Spiral52 million ly
apartNGC 6282Barred spiral70 million ly
apartNGC 6271Elliptical71 million ly
apartNGC 6261Lenticular73 million ly
apartIC 1249Barred spiral73 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4638Spiral52 million ly
apartNGC 6282Barred spiral70 million ly
apartNGC 6271Elliptical71 million ly
apartNGC 6261Lenticular73 million ly
apartIC 1249Barred spiral73 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).