NGC 2590
NGC 2590
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
233 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
141k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 233 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2590 as it looked roughly 233 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 494Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 2555Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 2642Barred spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 2617Barred spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 2615Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 504Lenticular43 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2555Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 2642Barred spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 2617Barred spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 2615Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 504Lenticular43 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).