NGC 234

NGC 234

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
207 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 207 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 234 as it looked roughly 207 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.

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IC 35Spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 251Spiral20 million ly
apart
IC 1598Spiral33 million ly
apart
NGC 469Spiral34 million ly
apart
NGC 471Lenticular34 million ly
apart
NGC 169Spiral36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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