NGC 6971
NGC 6971
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
255 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 255 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6971 as it looked roughly 255 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 1320Barred spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 6906Barred spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 7015Barred spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 6901Barred spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 7040Barred spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 6928Barred spiral42 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6906Barred spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 7015Barred spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 6901Barred spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 7040Barred spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 6928Barred spiral42 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).