NGC 6685
NGC 6685
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
309 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 309 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6685 as it looked roughly 309 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 6663Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6686Elliptical20 million ly
apartIC 4772Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 6612Galaxy34 million ly
apartNGC 6640Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 1279Barred spiral38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6686Elliptical20 million ly
apartIC 4772Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 6612Galaxy34 million ly
apartNGC 6640Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 1279Barred spiral38 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).