NGC 7377

NGC 7377

NGC 7377 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 156 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 180,000 ly, about 1.8 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,325 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
156 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
178k ly
across
11.2
apparent magnitude
3,325 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 156 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7377 as it looked roughly 156 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 7359Lenticular4.2 million ly
apart
IC 5261Barred spiral9.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7392Barred spiral9.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7365Elliptical15 million ly
apart
NGC 7306Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 7443Lenticular27 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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