NGC 7676

NGC 7676

NGC 7676 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Tucana about 157 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 95,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,471 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
157 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
3,471 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 157 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7676 as it looked roughly 157 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 7650Barred spiral5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 7657Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 7702Lenticular14 million ly
apart
NGC 7796Elliptical16 million ly
apart
NGC 7408Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 5272Spiral19 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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