NGC 6721
NGC 6721
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
205 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 205 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6721 as it looked roughly 205 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
IC 4806Barred spiral3.3 million ly
apartIC 4814Barred spiral4.3 million ly
apartIC 4830Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apartIC 4851Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4836Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4827Spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4814Barred spiral4.3 million ly
apartIC 4830Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apartIC 4851Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4836Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4827Spiral13 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).