NGC 6899
NGC 6899
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
273 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
142k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 273 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6899 as it looked roughly 273 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 4994Lenticular16 million ly
apartIC 4961Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4927Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 4944Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 6854Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 6878Spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4961Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4927Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 4944Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 6854Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 6878Spiral29 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).