NGC 7589
NGC 7589
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
416 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
116k ly
across
17.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 416 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7589 as it looked roughly 416 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 1482Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 7642Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7629Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 7546Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 7603Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 5287Barred spiral40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7642Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7629Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 7546Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 7603Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 5287Barred spiral40 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).