NGC 908

NGC 908

NGC 908 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 70 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,701 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
70 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
125k ly
across
10.3
apparent magnitude
1,701 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 70 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 908 as it looked roughly 70 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 899Irregular3.4 million ly
apart
IC 223Irregular4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 907Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1034Irregular8.0 million ly
apart
NGC 723Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apart
IC 1826Lenticular9.5 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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