NGC 6594
NGC 6594
NGC 6594 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 377 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 94,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 377 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
377 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 377 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6594 as it looked roughly 377 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 6592Elliptical2.7 million ly
apartNGC 6609Elliptical3.9 million ly
apartNGC 6601Elliptical6.6 million ly
apartIC 4708Galaxy7.5 million ly
apartNGC 6597Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 6521Elliptical16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6609Elliptical3.9 million ly
apartNGC 6601Elliptical6.6 million ly
apartIC 4708Galaxy7.5 million ly
apartNGC 6597Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 6521Elliptical16 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).