NGC 7590
NGC 7590
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
75 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
66k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 75 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7590 as it looked roughly 75 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
NGC 7552Spiral1,000,000 ly
apartNGC 7582Barred spiral1.4 million ly
apartNGC 7531Spiral2.1 million ly
apartNGC 7599Barred spiral2.3 million ly
apartNGC 7496ABarred spiral2.5 million ly
apartNGC 7632Lenticular3.4 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7582Barred spiral1.4 million ly
apartNGC 7531Spiral2.1 million ly
apartNGC 7599Barred spiral2.3 million ly
apartNGC 7496ABarred spiral2.5 million ly
apartNGC 7632Lenticular3.4 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).