NGC 6943
NGC 6943
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
146 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
160k ly
across
11.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 146 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6943 as it looked roughly 146 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 5023Spiral5.5 million ly
apartNGC 7032Spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 5071Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6844Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4964Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7020Lenticular15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7032Spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 5071Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6844Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4964Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7020Lenticular15 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).