NGC 7770

NGC 7770

NGC 7770 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 203 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 57,000 ly, about 57% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,264 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
203 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
57k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
4,264 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 203 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7770 as it looked roughly 203 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 7786Elliptical6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7769Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7771Spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 9Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 7722Lenticular24 million ly
apart
NGC 7711Lenticular25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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