NGC 2878
NGC 2878
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
340 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
103k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 340 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2878 as it looked roughly 340 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 2877Lenticular930,000 ly
apartNGC 2898Lenticular9.8 million ly
apartNGC 2897Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 2936Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 2937Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 539Spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2898Lenticular9.8 million ly
apartNGC 2897Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 2936Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 2937Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 539Spiral31 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).