NGC 1596
NGC 1596
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
70 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
11.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 70 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1596 as it looked roughly 70 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 1566Spiral1.5 million ly
apartNGC 1602Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 1581Elliptical5.1 million ly
apartIC 2049Spiral5.1 million ly
apartIC 2058Spiral5.3 million ly
apartNGC 1703Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1602Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 1581Elliptical5.1 million ly
apartIC 2049Spiral5.1 million ly
apartIC 2058Spiral5.3 million ly
apartNGC 1703Barred spiral7.3 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).