NGC 893

NGC 893

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
235 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 235 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 893 as it looked roughly 235 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 1796Elliptical2.9 million ly
apart
NGC 889Elliptical9.9 million ly
apart
IC 1812Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 862Elliptical13 million ly
apart
NGC 939Elliptical14 million ly
apart
NGC 954Barred spiral16 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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