NGC 897
NGC 897
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
224 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
131k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 224 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 897 as it looked roughly 224 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 1811Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 964Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1813Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 1816Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1833Lenticular29 million ly
apartIC 1864Elliptical29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 964Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1813Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 1816Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1833Lenticular29 million ly
apartIC 1864Elliptical29 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).