IC 1908

IC 1908

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
387 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
139k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 387 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1908 as it looked roughly 387 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 1960Spiral24 million ly
apart
IC 1938Barred spiral40 million ly
apart
IC 2034Spiral53 million ly
apart
IC 1877Barred spiral54 million ly
apart
IC 2037Barred spiral56 million ly
apart
IC 1912Spiral57 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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