NGC 7583

NGC 7583

NGC 7583 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 588 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 160,000 ly, about 1.6 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 12,610 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
588 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
156k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
12,610 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 588 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7583 as it looked roughly 588 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 7501Elliptical19 million ly
apart
NGC 7609 NED02Spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 7579Galaxy25 million ly
apart
NGC 7584Galaxy26 million ly
apart
IC 5291Galaxy28 million ly
apart
IC 5307Galaxy31 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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