NGC 910

NGC 910

NGC 910 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Andromeda about 246 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,126 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
246 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
128k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
5,126 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 246 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 910 as it looked roughly 246 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 898Spiral7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 913Galaxy10 million ly
apart
NGC 914Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 909Elliptical16 million ly
apart
NGC 828Spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 911Elliptical17 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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