NGC 7077
NGC 7077
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
52 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
14k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 52 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7077 as it looked roughly 52 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 7177Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 1420 NED02Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7241Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7332Lenticular26 million ly
apartIC 5078Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 7339Spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1420 NED02Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7241Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7332Lenticular26 million ly
apartIC 5078Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 7339Spiral29 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).