NGC 6902
NGC 6902
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
131 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
11.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 131 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6902 as it looked roughly 131 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 4946Lenticular5.0 million ly
apartNGC 6902BSpiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 6909Elliptical8.8 million ly
apartNGC 6870Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6868Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6861Elliptical13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6902BSpiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 6909Elliptical8.8 million ly
apartNGC 6870Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6868Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6861Elliptical13 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).