NGC 7598
NGC 7598 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 528 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 46,000 ly, about 46% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 528 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 528 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7598 as it looked roughly 528 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.
apartIC 5314Elliptical8.8 million ly
apartIC 5312Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7588Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 7602Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 5300Lenticular24 million ly
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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).