NGC 1108

NGC 1108

NGC 1108 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 433 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 433 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
433 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
131k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 433 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1108 as it looked roughly 433 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 1069Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 1064Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 1082Lenticular21 million ly
apart
NGC 1078Elliptical21 million ly
apart
NGC 1063Spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 1202Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

← all galaxies