NGC 954
NGC 954
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
249 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
130k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 249 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 954 as it looked roughly 249 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
IC 1810Spiral8.3 million ly
apartNGC 889Elliptical9.0 million ly
apartIC 1812Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 1796Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 862Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 893Spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 889Elliptical9.0 million ly
apartIC 1812Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 1796Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 862Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 893Spiral16 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).