NGC 6358
NGC 6358
NGC 6358 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Draco about 432 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 432 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
432 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
126k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 432 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6358 as it looked roughly 432 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 1252Spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 6382Elliptical38 million ly
apartNGC 6454Elliptical39 million ly
apartNGC 6346Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 1237Barred spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 6459Lenticular45 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6382Elliptical38 million ly
apartNGC 6454Elliptical39 million ly
apartNGC 6346Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 1237Barred spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 6459Lenticular45 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).