NGC 929
NGC 929
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
224 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
57k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 224 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 929 as it looked roughly 224 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 950Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apartIC 230Lenticular8.5 million ly
apartNGC 1011Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1006Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 960Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 977Spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 230Lenticular8.5 million ly
apartNGC 1011Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1006Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 960Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 977Spiral14 million ly
apart
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).