NGC 214

NGC 214

NGC 214 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda about 213 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,495 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
213 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
116k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
4,495 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 213 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 214 as it looked roughly 213 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 169Spiral6.8 million ly
apart
NGC 169ALenticular9.5 million ly
apart
IC 1584Spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 43Spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 108Lenticular21 million ly
apart
NGC 243Lenticular21 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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