NGC 2832

NGC 2832

NGC 2832 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Lynx about 320 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 300,000 ly, about 3.0 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,869 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
320 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
297k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
6,869 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 320 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2832 as it looked roughly 320 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 2834Elliptical5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 2827Spiral6.1 million ly
apart
IC 2459Elliptical8.8 million ly
apart
IC 2456Elliptical9.7 million ly
apart
NGC 2829 NED02Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 2823Spiral12 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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