NGC 966
NGC 966
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
482 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
158k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 482 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 966 as it looked roughly 482 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 892Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 1102Spiral58 million ly
apartIC 250Spiral62 million ly
apartNGC 1139Lenticular63 million ly
apartNGC 878Spiral71 million ly
apartNGC 1091Spiral71 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1102Spiral58 million ly
apartIC 250Spiral62 million ly
apartNGC 1139Lenticular63 million ly
apartNGC 878Spiral71 million ly
apartNGC 1091Spiral71 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).