NGC 6898
NGC 6898
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
265 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 265 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6898 as it looked roughly 265 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 6897Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6985Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6985AGalaxy29 million ly
apartIC 1324Lenticular31 million ly
apartIC 1331Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 6915Spiral43 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6985Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6985AGalaxy29 million ly
apartIC 1324Lenticular31 million ly
apartIC 1331Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 6915Spiral43 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).