NGC 6332
NGC 6332
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
392 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
198k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 392 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6332 as it looked roughly 392 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 6329Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6301Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6336Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6343Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 6320Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1263Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6301Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6336Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6343Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 6320Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1263Barred spiral26 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).