NGC 922

NGC 922

NGC 922 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Fornax about 143 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 88,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,069 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
143 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
3,069 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 143 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 922 as it looked roughly 143 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 857Lenticular25 million ly
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IC 1892Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
IC 1788Barred spiral28 million ly
apart
NGC 1125Lenticular29 million ly
apart
IC 276Lenticular30 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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