NGC 7580

NGC 7580

NGC 7580 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 205 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 47,000 ly, about 47% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,787 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
205 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
47k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
4,787 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 205 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7580 as it looked roughly 205 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 7563Spiral6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7515Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7559BElliptical7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 7567Spiral8.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7559ALenticular9.2 million ly
apart
IC 5292Spiral9.6 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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