NGC 377
NGC 377
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
748 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
213k ly
across
16.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 748 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 377 as it looked roughly 748 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 333BLenticular64 million ly
apartNGC 343Spiral66 million ly
apartIC 1588Lenticular66 million ly
apartIC 80 NED02Elliptical67 million ly
apartIC 1587Lenticular81 million ly
apartIC 1576Spiral94 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 343Spiral66 million ly
apartIC 1588Lenticular66 million ly
apartIC 80 NED02Elliptical67 million ly
apartIC 1587Lenticular81 million ly
apartIC 1576Spiral94 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).