NGC 3591
NGC 3591
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
254 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 254 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3591 as it looked roughly 254 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 679Elliptical4.1 million ly
apartIC 681Spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 3667Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3667ABarred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 3696Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3704Elliptical21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 681Spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 3667Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3667ABarred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 3696Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3704Elliptical21 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).