NGC 931
NGC 931
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
228 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
163k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 228 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 931 as it looked roughly 228 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 973Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartNGC 953Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 1789Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 1815Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 978AElliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 940Lenticular12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 953Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 1789Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 1815Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 978AElliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 940Lenticular12 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).