NGC 6657
NGC 6657
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
327 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 327 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6657 as it looked roughly 327 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 6640Spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 6575Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 1277Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 6663Spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4772Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 6612Galaxy35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6575Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 1277Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 6663Spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4772Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 6612Galaxy35 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).