NGC 532

NGC 532

NGC 532 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 106 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 67,000 ly, about 67% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,332 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
106 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
2,332 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 106 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 532 as it looked roughly 106 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 509Lenticular1.1 million ly
apart
IC 114Lenticular1.4 million ly
apart
IC 101Barred spiral4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 485Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 525Lenticular6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 524Lenticular6.8 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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