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.

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NGC 7483Spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 7682Spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 7679Lenticular18 million ly
apart
NGC 7472Elliptical19 million ly
apart
IC 5283Spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 7469Spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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