NGC 1088 NED01
NGC 1088 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
336 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 336 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1088 NED01 as it looked roughly 336 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 1839Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 255Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 1117Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 1838Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 1116Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1817 NED02Spiral36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 255Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 1117Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 1838Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 1116Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1817 NED02Spiral36 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).