NGC 7587

NGC 7587

NGC 7587 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 409 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,917 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
409 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
133k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
8,917 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 409 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7587 as it looked roughly 409 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 7528Galaxy7.5 million ly
apart
NGC 7674Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 7675Elliptical19 million ly
apart
NGC 7601Spiral35 million ly
apart
NGC 7639Elliptical36 million ly
apart
NGC 7586Galaxy37 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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