NGC 6908
NGC 6908
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
149 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 149 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6908 as it looked roughly 149 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 6907Barred spiral570,000 ly
apartIC 4999Spiral5.0 million ly
apartIC 5005Barred spiral5.4 million ly
apartNGC 6903Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 1313Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 5020Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4999Spiral5.0 million ly
apartIC 5005Barred spiral5.4 million ly
apartNGC 6903Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 1313Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 5020Barred spiral23 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).