NGC 7760
NGC 7760
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
237 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 237 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7760 as it looked roughly 237 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 7753Spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 7752Spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 7729Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5355Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7819Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7805Lenticular16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7752Spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 7729Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5355Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7819Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7805Lenticular16 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).