NGC 892
NGC 892
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
478 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 478 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 892 as it looked roughly 478 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 966Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 878Spiral61 million ly
apartNGC 1102Spiral72 million ly
apartNGC 725Spiral80 million ly
apartNGC 1091Spiral86 million ly
apartNGC 1092Elliptical87 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 878Spiral61 million ly
apartNGC 1102Spiral72 million ly
apartNGC 725Spiral80 million ly
apartNGC 1091Spiral86 million ly
apartNGC 1092Elliptical87 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).