NGC 7677
NGC 7677
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
166 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 166 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7677 as it looked roughly 166 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 7678Spiral4.2 million ly
apartNGC 7664Spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 7673Spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 7712Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 5284Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7628Elliptical31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7664Spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 7673Spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 7712Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 5284Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7628Elliptical31 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).