Soderberg and her colleagues detected the supernova SN 2008D as it was occurring on January 9, 2008, using data from NASA's Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission X-ray space telescope, from a precursor star in the spiral galaxy NGC 2770, 88 million light years away (27 Mpc).
NGC 2770 is a type SASc spiral galaxy located about 88 million light years away, in the constellation Lynx.
NGC | NGC 7006 | NGC 6946 | NGC 6729 | NGC 6541 | NGC 6302 | NGC 5866 | NGC 5823 | NGC 55 | NGC 5286 | NGC 3242 | NGC 3169 | NGC 2770 | NGC 1999 | NGC 1851 | NGC 1261 | NGC 1097 |