NGC 755

NGC 755

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
77 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 77 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 755 as it looked roughly 77 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 681Spiral6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 720Elliptical6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 853Spiral7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 701Barred spiral9.2 million ly
apart
NGC 814Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 636Elliptical12 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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