NGC 1879
NGC 1879
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBm
58 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
41k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 58 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1879 as it looked roughly 58 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 2147Spiral6.3 million ly
apartNGC 1792Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apartIC 2135Spiral6.7 million ly
apartNGC 1827Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1679Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1808Spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1792Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apartIC 2135Spiral6.7 million ly
apartNGC 1827Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1679Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1808Spiral12 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).