NGC 6925
NGC 6925
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
130 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
177k ly
across
11.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 130 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6925 as it looked roughly 130 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 6923Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apartIC 5003Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apartIC 5007Spiral7.6 million ly
apartIC 5020Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6958Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 5005Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5003Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apartIC 5007Spiral7.6 million ly
apartIC 5020Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6958Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 5005Barred spiral21 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).