NGC 964
NGC 964
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
224 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
142k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 224 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 964 as it looked roughly 224 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 1811Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 897Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1816Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1813Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 1864Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 893Spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 897Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1816Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1813Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 1864Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 893Spiral26 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).