NGC 77
NGC 77
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
911 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
127k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 911 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 77 as it looked roughly 911 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
IC 1573Spiral150 million ly
apartIC 1587Lenticular160 million ly
apartIC 1576Spiral170 million ly
apartNGC 343Spiral180 million ly
apartIC 38Spiral180 million ly
apartIC 1588Lenticular180 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1587Lenticular160 million ly
apartIC 1576Spiral170 million ly
apartNGC 343Spiral180 million ly
apartIC 38Spiral180 million ly
apartIC 1588Lenticular180 million ly
apart
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).