NGC 799
NGC 799
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
271 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
135k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 271 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 799 as it looked roughly 271 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 800Spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 856Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1750Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 197Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 742Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 194Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 856Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1750Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 197Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 742Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 194Barred spiral29 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).