NGC 1536

NGC 1536

NGC 1536 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Reticulum about 61 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 30,000 ly, about 30% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,565 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
61 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
30k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
1,565 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 61 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1536 as it looked roughly 61 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 1546Lenticular1.6 million ly
apart
IC 2058Spiral3.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1549Elliptical4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1553Lenticular5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1672Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1543Lenticular6.6 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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