NGC 1132

NGC 1132

NGC 1132 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 324 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 180,000 ly, about 1.8 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,951 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
324 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
180k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
6,951 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 324 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1132 as it looked roughly 324 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 1126Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 1104Spiral22 million ly
apart
IC 1856Spiral22 million ly
apart
IC 264Elliptical23 million ly
apart
NGC 1043Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 1094Spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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