NGC 1677
NGC 1677
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
128 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
45k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 128 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1677 as it looked roughly 128 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 1665Lenticular1.9 million ly
apartNGC 1681Barred spiral2.2 million ly
apartNGC 1666Lenticular4.0 million ly
apartIC 2095Spiral4.5 million ly
apartIC 2098Spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 1843Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1681Barred spiral2.2 million ly
apartNGC 1666Lenticular4.0 million ly
apartIC 2095Spiral4.5 million ly
apartIC 2098Spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 1843Spiral19 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).