NGC 934

NGC 934

NGC 934 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 294 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 97,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,353 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
294 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
97k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
6,353 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 294 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 934 as it looked roughly 294 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 926Barred spiral4.6 million ly
apart
IC 234Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apart
IC 232Elliptical9.2 million ly
apart
IC 237Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 867Lenticular16 million ly
apart
IC 218Barred spiral18 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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