NGC 1906
NGC 1906
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
139 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
42k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 139 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1906 as it looked roughly 139 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 407Spiral7.9 million ly
apartIC 416Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1954Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1993Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 2132Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 1888Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 416Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1954Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1993Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 2132Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 1888Barred spiral15 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).