NGC 6851B
NGC 6851B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBcd
160 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
52k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 160 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6851B 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 6851ABarred spiral940,000 ly
apartNGC 6861FBarred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6875ABarred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6875Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 6851Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 4877Lenticular19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6861FBarred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6875ABarred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6875Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 6851Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 4877Lenticular19 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).