NGC 6612
NGC 6612
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
299 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 299 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6612 as it looked roughly 299 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
IC 1279Barred spiral5.5 million ly
apartNGC 6640Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 6685Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 6657Barred spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 6447Spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 6663Spiral36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6640Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 6685Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 6657Barred spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 6447Spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 6663Spiral36 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).