NGC 1580
NGC 1580
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
199 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 199 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1580 as it looked roughly 199 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
IC 372Lenticular3.1 million ly
apartNGC 1594Barred spiral4.5 million ly
apartNGC 1607Lenticular4.8 million ly
apartNGC 1609Lenticular4.9 million ly
apartNGC 1611Lenticular5.2 million ly
apartIC 2080Spiral8.4 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1594Barred spiral4.5 million ly
apartNGC 1607Lenticular4.8 million ly
apartNGC 1609Lenticular4.9 million ly
apartNGC 1611Lenticular5.2 million ly
apartIC 2080Spiral8.4 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).