NGC 938

NGC 938

NGC 938 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Aries about 191 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 86,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,089 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
191 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
4,089 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 191 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 938 as it looked roughly 191 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 932Spiral540,000 ly
apart
IC 1801Barred spiral3.1 million ly
apart
IC 1797Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apart
NGC 935Spiral4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 992Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 976Barred spiral7.8 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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