NGC 7582

NGC 7582

NGC 7582 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Grus about 74 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,564 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
74 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
149k ly
across
11.0
apparent magnitude
1,564 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 74 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7582 as it looked roughly 74 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 7590Barred spiral1.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7531Spiral2.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7552Spiral2.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7632Lenticular2.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7496ABarred spiral2.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7599Barred spiral3.6 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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