NGC 7779

NGC 7779

NGC 7779 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 238 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,100 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
238 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
103k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
5,100 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 238 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7779 as it looked roughly 238 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 7780Spiral2.5 million ly
apart
NGC 7778Elliptical7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7782Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 7816Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 7802Lenticular14 million ly
apart
NGC 7834Spiral15 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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