NGC 2921
NGC 2921
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
138 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
115k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 138 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2921 as it looked roughly 138 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 2920Spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 2865Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 2947Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 2537Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 2815Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 3030Elliptical26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2865Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 2947Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 2537Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 2815Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 3030Elliptical26 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).