NGC 7776
NGC 7776
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
429 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
125k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 429 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7776 as it looked roughly 429 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
IC 1520Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7813Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 7808Lenticular31 million ly
apartIC 1494Lenticular47 million ly
apartIC 1521Lenticular54 million ly
apartNGC 7730Barred spiral58 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7813Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 7808Lenticular31 million ly
apartIC 1494Lenticular47 million ly
apartIC 1521Lenticular54 million ly
apartNGC 7730Barred spiral58 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).