NGC 6972
NGC 6972
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
210 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 210 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6972 as it looked roughly 210 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 6988Elliptical6.0 million ly
apartNGC 6956Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6944Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 6927Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 6927AElliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 6930Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6956Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6944Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 6927Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 6927AElliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 6930Barred spiral17 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).