NGC 939
NGC 939
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
240 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
116k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 240 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 939 as it looked roughly 240 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 1812Elliptical7.3 million ly
apartIC 1796Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 889Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 1810Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 893Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 954Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1796Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 889Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 1810Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 893Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 954Barred spiral16 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).