NGC 7766

NGC 7766

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Galaxy
morphology
372 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
16.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 372 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7766 as it looked roughly 372 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 7767Lenticular2.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7747Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 7768Elliptical14 million ly
apart
NGC 7720AElliptical19 million ly
apart
NGC 7765Galaxy20 million ly
apart
NGC 7737Lenticular21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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