NGC 7754
NGC 7754
NGC 7754 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 362 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 68,000 ly, about 68% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 362 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
362 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 362 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7754 as it looked roughly 362 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 7759Lenticular16 million ly
apartIC 1509Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7807Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7821Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 7761Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 7656Lenticular41 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1509Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7807Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7821Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 7761Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 7656Lenticular41 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).