NGC 2332

NGC 2332

NGC 2332 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Lynx about 273 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,806 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
273 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
136k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
5,806 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 273 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2332 as it looked roughly 273 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 2340Elliptical4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 2326Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apart
IC 461Galaxy6.7 million ly
apart
NGC 2320Elliptical6.9 million ly
apart
NGC 2329Elliptical7.7 million ly
apart
IC 459Galaxy9.7 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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