NGC 6745 NED01
NGC 6745 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
212 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
58k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 212 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6745 NED01 as it looked roughly 212 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 6792Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6702Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 6711Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1303Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1302Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 6700Barred spiral34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6702Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 6711Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1303Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1302Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 6700Barred spiral34 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).