NGC 632

NGC 632

NGC 632 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 148 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 43,000 ly, about 43% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,157 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
148 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
43k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
3,157 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 148 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 632 as it looked roughly 148 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 645Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apart
NGC 638Elliptical8.7 million ly
apart
NGC 658Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 1776Spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 522Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 851Lenticular22 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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