NGC 6622
NGC 6622
NGC 6622 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 301 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 85,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 301 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
301 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 301 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6622 as it looked roughly 301 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 6677Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 6679Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 6676Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6621Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6650Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 6651Barred spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6679Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 6676Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6621Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6650Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 6651Barred spiral37 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).