NGC 920

NGC 920

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
292 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 292 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 920 as it looked roughly 292 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.

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NGC 946Lenticular32 million ly
apart
NGC 937Spiral32 million ly
apart
NGC 923Spiral32 million ly
apart
IC 258Lenticular32 million ly
apart
NGC 1130Elliptical33 million ly
apart
NGC 980Lenticular34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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