NGC 2008
NGC 2008
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
480 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
172k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 480 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2008 as it looked roughly 480 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 2148Barred spiral74 million ly
apartNGC 1668Elliptical86 million ly
apartNGC 2152Barred spiral89 million ly
apartIC 2079Spiral92 million ly
apartIC 2082 NED01Elliptical110 million ly
apartIC 2046Barred spiral110 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1668Elliptical86 million ly
apartNGC 2152Barred spiral89 million ly
apartIC 2079Spiral92 million ly
apartIC 2082 NED01Elliptical110 million ly
apartIC 2046Barred spiral110 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).