NGC 964

NGC 964

NGC 964 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Fornax about 224 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,780 km/s.

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
4,780 km/s
receding (RC3)

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
apart
NGC 897Spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 1816Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 1813Lenticular15 million ly
apart
IC 1864Elliptical24 million ly
apart
NGC 893Spiral26 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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