IC 777
IC 777
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
120 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
29k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 120 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 777 as it looked roughly 120 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 4162Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4275Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4793Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 4158Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 4529Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 3788Spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4275Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4793Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 4158Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 4529Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 3788Spiral20 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).