NGC 78A
NGC 78A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
236 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 236 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 78A as it looked roughly 236 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 132Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 117Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 125Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 78BLenticular19 million ly
apartIC 3Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 182Spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 117Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 125Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 78BLenticular19 million ly
apartIC 3Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 182Spiral22 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).