NGC 6365A

NGC 6365A

NGC 6365A is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 396 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,904 km/s.

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
7,904 km/s
receding (RC3)

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
apart
NGC 6319Elliptical18 million ly
apart
NGC 6394Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 6317Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 6365BSpiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 6488Elliptical23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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