NGC 80

NGC 80

NGC 80 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Andromeda about 265 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,672 km/s.

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
5,672 km/s
receding (RC3)

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
apart
IC 1545Galaxy2.6 million ly
apart
IC 1544Spiral3.8 million ly
apart
IC 1548Elliptical3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 86Lenticular4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 85BBarred spiral7.0 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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