NGC 6665
NGC 6665
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
226 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 226 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6665 as it looked roughly 226 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 6632Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6700Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1296Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6697Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 6710Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 6713Galaxy27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6700Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1296Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6697Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 6710Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 6713Galaxy27 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).