NGC 7596
NGC 7596
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
334 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 334 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7596 as it looked roughly 334 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 7592BBarred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7592AGalaxy18 million ly
apartIC 1464BGalaxy24 million ly
apartIC 1464AGalaxy25 million ly
apartNGC 7544Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 7517Elliptical29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7592AGalaxy18 million ly
apartIC 1464BGalaxy24 million ly
apartIC 1464AGalaxy25 million ly
apartNGC 7544Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 7517Elliptical29 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).