NGC 6920
NGC 6920
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
123 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 123 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6920 as it looked roughly 123 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 5026Spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 7095Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 6438Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 7098Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 5072Galaxy18 million ly
apartNGC 2573BIrregular20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7095Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 6438Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 7098Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 5072Galaxy18 million ly
apartNGC 2573BIrregular20 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).