NGC 535

NGC 535

NGC 535 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 228 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 64,000 ly, about 64% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,939 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
228 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
4,939 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 228 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 535 as it looked roughly 228 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 558Elliptical4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 530Lenticular4.9 million ly
apart
IC 120Lenticular9.7 million ly
apart
IC 1694Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 521Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 138Spiral15 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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