NGC 1888
NGC 1888
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
128 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 128 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1888 as it looked roughly 128 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 1843Spiral8.1 million ly
apartIC 407Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1889Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 1906Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 1924Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 2089Elliptical20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 407Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1889Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 1906Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 1924Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 2089Elliptical20 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).