NGC 1184
NGC 1184
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
106 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
109k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 106 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1184 as it looked roughly 106 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 334Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 2268Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 1530Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 1343Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 1530ASpiral16 million ly
apartIC 469Spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2268Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 1530Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 1343Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 1530ASpiral16 million ly
apartIC 469Spiral18 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).