NGC 1080
NGC 1080
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
366 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
116k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 366 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1080 as it looked roughly 366 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 243Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 1126Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 1072Spiral33 million ly
apartIC 264Elliptical36 million ly
apartNGC 1033Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 1041Elliptical38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1126Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 1072Spiral33 million ly
apartIC 264Elliptical36 million ly
apartNGC 1033Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 1041Elliptical38 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).