NGC 865
NGC 865
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
140 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
66k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 140 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 865 as it looked roughly 140 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 694Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 167Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 674Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1730Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 680Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 678Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 167Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 674Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1730Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 680Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 678Barred spiral23 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).