NGC 140
NGC 140
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
300 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 300 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 140 as it looked roughly 300 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 112Barred spiral9.6 million ly
apartNGC 67Galaxy17 million ly
apartNGC 69Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 71Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 72AElliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 282Elliptical26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 67Galaxy17 million ly
apartNGC 69Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 71Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 72AElliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 282Elliptical26 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).