NGC 1597
NGC 1597
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
466 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
138k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 466 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1597 as it looked roughly 466 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 376Galaxy13 million ly
apartIC 369Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 1623Lenticular20 million ly
apartIC 370Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 377Elliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 1575Spiral35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 369Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 1623Lenticular20 million ly
apartIC 370Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 377Elliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 1575Spiral35 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).