NGC 1797
NGC 1797
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
208 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 208 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1797 as it looked roughly 208 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 1799Lenticular1.2 million ly
apartNGC 1721Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 1720Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2101Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 1667Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 1741BSpiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1721Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 1720Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2101Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 1667Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 1741BSpiral19 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).