NGC 7177

NGC 7177

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
53 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
44k ly
across
11.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 53 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7177 as it looked roughly 53 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 7332Lenticular11 million ly
apart
IC 1420 NED02Spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 7339Spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 7241Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 7077Elliptical16 million ly
apart
IC 1420 NED01Spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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