NGC 6433
NGC 6433
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
348 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
194k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 348 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6433 as it looked roughly 348 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 6446Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 6367Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6447Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 6487Elliptical46 million ly
apartIC 1277Spiral50 million ly
apartNGC 6486Elliptical53 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6367Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6447Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 6487Elliptical46 million ly
apartIC 1277Spiral50 million ly
apartNGC 6486Elliptical53 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).