NGC 6340
NGC 6340
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
57 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
11.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 57 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6340 as it looked roughly 57 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
IC 1251Spiral840,000 ly
apartIC 1254Barred spiral1,000,000 ly
apartNGC 6395Barred spiral3.0 million ly
apartNGC 6236Spiral3.8 million ly
apartIC 4660Barred spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 6412Spiral6.1 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1254Barred spiral1,000,000 ly
apartNGC 6395Barred spiral3.0 million ly
apartNGC 6236Spiral3.8 million ly
apartIC 4660Barred spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 6412Spiral6.1 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).