NGC 6646
NGC 6646
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
269 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
116k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 269 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6646 as it looked roughly 269 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 1288Barred spiral4.2 million ly
apartIC 1289Galaxy13 million ly
apartNGC 6695Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6606Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6688Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 6612Galaxy38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1289Galaxy13 million ly
apartNGC 6695Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6606Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6688Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 6612Galaxy38 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).