NGC 6504
NGC 6504
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
221 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
125k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 221 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6504 as it looked roughly 221 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 6485Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 6632Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 6581Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 6665Spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4697Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 6372Barred spiral35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6632Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 6581Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 6665Spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4697Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 6372Barred spiral35 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).