NGC 597
NGC 597
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
238 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 238 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 597 as it looked roughly 238 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 1734Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 633Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 527BBarred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 526BLenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 568Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 526ALenticular29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 633Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 527BBarred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 526BLenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 568Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 526ALenticular29 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).