NGC 6965

NGC 6965

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
197 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
42k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 197 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6965 as it looked roughly 197 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 6962Spiral1.4 million ly
apart
NGC 6954Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 6964Elliptical20 million ly
apart
NGC 6967Lenticular21 million ly
apart
NGC 6944ASpiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 6961Elliptical24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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