NGC 3908
NGC 3908
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
1.2 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
222k ly
across
16.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.2 billion ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3908 as it looked roughly 1.2 billion 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 2938Elliptical93 million ly
apartIC 2900Barred spiral94 million ly
apartIC 2901Lenticular100 million ly
apartIC 2845Lenticular110 million ly
apartIC 2864Spiral110 million ly
apartIC 2788Galaxy130 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2900Barred spiral94 million ly
apartIC 2901Lenticular100 million ly
apartIC 2845Lenticular110 million ly
apartIC 2864Spiral110 million ly
apartIC 2788Galaxy130 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).