IC 908
IC 908
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
316 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 316 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 908 as it looked roughly 316 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 5241Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 899Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 5196Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 5202Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5197Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 5232Lenticular26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 899Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 5196Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 5202Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5197Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 5232Lenticular26 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).