NGC 6957
NGC 6957
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
380 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 380 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6957 as it looked roughly 380 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 6955Spiral3.4 million ly
apartIC 1360Barred spiral52 million ly
apartIC 5050Barred spiral55 million ly
apartNGC 7001Spiral57 million ly
apartIC 5111Barred spiral74 million ly
apartIC 1327Lenticular76 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1360Barred spiral52 million ly
apartIC 5050Barred spiral55 million ly
apartNGC 7001Spiral57 million ly
apartIC 5111Barred spiral74 million ly
apartIC 1327Lenticular76 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).