NGC 6489
NGC 6489
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
387 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
57k ly
across
16.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 387 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6489 as it looked roughly 387 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 6512Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 6521Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 6597Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 6394Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 6418Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6592Elliptical20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6521Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 6597Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 6394Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 6418Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6592Elliptical20 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).