NGC 6365A
NGC 6365A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
396 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
113k ly
across
18.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 396 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6365A as it looked roughly 396 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 6435Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 6319Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 6394Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 6317Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6365BSpiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6488Elliptical23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6319Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 6394Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 6317Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6365BSpiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6488Elliptical23 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).