NGC 6878A
NGC 6878A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
250 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
136k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 250 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6878A as it looked roughly 250 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 4956Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6918Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 6878Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4991Lenticular23 million ly
apartIC 4926Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 4916Barred spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6918Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 6878Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4991Lenticular23 million ly
apartIC 4926Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 4916Barred spiral32 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).