NGC 27
NGC 27 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda about 327 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,054 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 327 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 27 as it looked roughly 327 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.
apartNGC 70Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 74Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 72AElliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 71Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 69Elliptical19 million ly
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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).