NGC 21

NGC 21

NGC 21 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda about 221 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 89,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,859 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
221 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
4,859 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 221 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 21 as it looked roughly 221 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 13Barred spiral2.9 million ly
apart
NGC 19Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apart
NGC 43Lenticular9.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7836Elliptical9.9 million ly
apart
NGC 39Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 6Elliptical11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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