NGC 80
NGC 80
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
265 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 265 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 80 as it looked roughly 265 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 1543Barred spiral2.6 million ly
apartIC 1545Galaxy2.6 million ly
apartIC 1544Spiral3.8 million ly
apartIC 1548Elliptical3.9 million ly
apartNGC 86Lenticular4.1 million ly
apartNGC 85BBarred spiral7.0 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1545Galaxy2.6 million ly
apartIC 1544Spiral3.8 million ly
apartIC 1548Elliptical3.9 million ly
apartNGC 86Lenticular4.1 million ly
apartNGC 85BBarred spiral7.0 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).