NGC 950

NGC 950

NGC 950 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 220 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 76,000 ly, about 76% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,696 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
220 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
4,696 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 220 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 950 as it looked roughly 220 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 929Spiral5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1006Spiral8.0 million ly
apart
NGC 977Spiral8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1011Spiral8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 981Spiral9.5 million ly
apart
NGC 960Spiral9.6 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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