NGC 182

NGC 182

NGC 182 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 244 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,217 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABa
244 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
132k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
5,217 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 244 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 182 as it looked roughly 244 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 198Spiral2.1 million ly
apart
NGC 194Elliptical3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 203Lenticular3.5 million ly
apart
NGC 200Barred spiral4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 208Spiral6.0 million ly
apart
IC 40Barred spiral9.1 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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