NGC 6346
NGC 6346
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
412 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
109k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 412 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6346 as it looked roughly 412 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 1252Spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 6382Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 1250Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 6376Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 6377Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 1237Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6382Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 1250Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 6376Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 6377Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 1237Barred 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).