NGC 944
NGC 944
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
178 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
52k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 178 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 944 as it looked roughly 178 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 224Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 873Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 1081Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 838Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 839Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 833Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 873Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 1081Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 838Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 839Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 833Spiral19 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).