NGC 78B
NGC 78B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
255 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
74k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 255 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 78B as it looked roughly 255 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 117Lenticular8.8 million ly
apartIC 3Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 132Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 125Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 78ALenticular19 million ly
apartIC 25Lenticular21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 132Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 125Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 78ALenticular19 million ly
apartIC 25Lenticular21 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).