NGC 927

NGC 927

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
385 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
132k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 385 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 927 as it looked roughly 385 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 1028Spiral28 million ly
apart
IC 213Spiral35 million ly
apart
NGC 1112Spiral38 million ly
apart
IC 1849Elliptical40 million ly
apart
NGC 810 NED01Elliptical41 million ly
apart
IC 1775Spiral42 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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