NGC 940
NGC 940
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
240 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 240 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 940 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
NGC 973Barred spiral8.3 million ly
apartIC 1823Spiral8.6 million ly
apartIC 1793Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 931Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 1060Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 917Spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1823Spiral8.6 million ly
apartIC 1793Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 931Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 1060Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 917Spiral13 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).