NGC 6674
NGC 6674
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
160 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
186k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 160 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6674 as it looked roughly 160 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 6671Barred spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 6602Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6586Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6599Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 6587Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 6680Galaxy30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6602Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6586Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6599Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 6587Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 6680Galaxy30 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).