NGC 7761
NGC 7761
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
335 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
120k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 335 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7761 as it looked roughly 335 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 1509Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7759Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 1529Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 7821Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 2Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 7754Spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7759Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 1529Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 7821Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 2Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 7754Spiral33 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).