NGC 7594

NGC 7594

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
505 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
189k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 505 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7594 as it looked roughly 505 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 7519Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 5305Spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 7500Lenticular20 million ly
apart
NGC 7575Lenticular54 million ly
apart
NGC 7499Lenticular56 million ly
apart
NGC 7542Lenticular59 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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