NGC 6654
NGC 6654
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
89 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 89 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6654 as it looked roughly 89 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 6643Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6796Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6538Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 6434Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5452Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5323Spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6796Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6538Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 6434Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5452Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5323Spiral27 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).