NGC 1180
NGC 1180
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
440 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 440 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1180 as it looked roughly 440 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 1181Barred spiral1.2 million ly
apartNGC 1191Elliptical6.3 million ly
apartNGC 1203AElliptical8.3 million ly
apartNGC 1192Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 1151Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 268Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1191Elliptical6.3 million ly
apartNGC 1203AElliptical8.3 million ly
apartNGC 1192Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 1151Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 268Spiral19 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).