NGC 192

NGC 192

NGC 192 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 202 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,210 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
202 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
121k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
4,210 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 202 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 192 as it looked roughly 202 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 201Spiral2.0 million ly
apart
NGC 197Lenticular3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 196Lenticular4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 170Elliptical5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 173Spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 237Spiral7.8 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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