NGC 7591
NGC 7591
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
232 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
109k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 232 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7591 as it looked roughly 232 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 7483Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7682Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7679Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 7472Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 5283Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7469Spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7682Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7679Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 7472Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 5283Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7469Spiral20 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).