NGC 4077

NGC 4077

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
328 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
120k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 328 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4077 as it looked roughly 328 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.

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NGC 4075Lenticular23 million ly
apart
NGC 4043Lenticular32 million ly
apart
IC 753Lenticular34 million ly
apart
NGC 4333Barred spiral36 million ly
apart
NGC 4326Spiral36 million ly
apart
NGC 4493Elliptical39 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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