NGC 7592B

NGC 7592B

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
342 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
87k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 342 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7592B as it looked roughly 342 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 7592AGalaxy1.9 million ly
apart
NGC 7556Elliptical14 million ly
apart
NGC 7517Elliptical16 million ly
apart
NGC 7596Lenticular17 million ly
apart
NGC 7544Lenticular19 million ly
apart
NGC 7524Lenticular23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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