NGC 6635
NGC 6635
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
255 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 255 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6635 as it looked roughly 255 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 6627Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6616Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 6527Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 6577Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 4688Spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 6576Lenticular37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6616Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 6527Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 6577Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 4688Spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 6576Lenticular37 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).