NGC 76

NGC 76

NGC 76 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Andromeda about 345 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,389 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
345 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
129k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
7,389 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 345 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 76 as it looked roughly 345 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 74Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 70Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 2Spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 27Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 72Spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 72AElliptical28 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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