NGC 6663
NGC 6663
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
321 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 321 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6663 as it looked roughly 321 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 6686Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 4772Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6685Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 6640Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 6657Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 6612Galaxy36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4772Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6685Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 6640Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 6657Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 6612Galaxy36 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).