NGC 6662
NGC 6662
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
256 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 256 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6662 as it looked roughly 256 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 6688Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 6713Galaxy20 million ly
apartIC 1296Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 6665Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 1289Galaxy35 million ly
apartIC 1288Barred spiral36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6713Galaxy20 million ly
apartIC 1296Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 6665Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 1289Galaxy35 million ly
apartIC 1288Barred spiral36 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).