NGC 933
NGC 933
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
1.2 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
651k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.2 billion ly from home, you are seeing NGC 933 as it looked roughly 1.2 billion 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
IC 1614Galaxy430 million ly
apartIC 1676Elliptical650 million ly
apartIC 1635Elliptical670 million ly
apartNGC 870Galaxy680 million ly
apartNGC 326 NED01Elliptical680 million ly
apartIC 1841Barred spiral700 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1676Elliptical650 million ly
apartIC 1635Elliptical670 million ly
apartNGC 870Galaxy680 million ly
apartNGC 326 NED01Elliptical680 million ly
apartIC 1841Barred spiral700 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).