NGC 924

NGC 924

NGC 924 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Aries about 209 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,661 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
209 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
4,661 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 209 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 924 as it looked roughly 209 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 984Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 976Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 935Spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 1797Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 938Elliptical18 million ly
apart
NGC 932Spiral18 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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