NGC 6923
NGC 6923
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
132 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
97k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 132 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6923 as it looked roughly 132 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 6925Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apartIC 5007Spiral8.1 million ly
apartIC 5003Barred spiral8.3 million ly
apartIC 5020Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 5005Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4999Spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5007Spiral8.1 million ly
apartIC 5003Barred spiral8.3 million ly
apartIC 5020Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 5005Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4999Spiral18 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).