NGC 7593

NGC 7593

NGC 7593 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 191 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 58,000 ly, about 58% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 191 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
191 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
58k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 191 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7593 as it looked roughly 191 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 7672Barred spiral8.5 million ly
apart
IC 5309Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 7563Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 7619Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 7643Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 7659Lenticular13 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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