NGC 6851A
NGC 6851A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
159 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 159 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6851A as it looked roughly 159 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 6851BBarred spiral940,000 ly
apartNGC 6861FBarred spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 6875ABarred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6875Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 6851Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 6893Lenticular18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6861FBarred spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 6875ABarred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6875Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 6851Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 6893Lenticular18 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).