NGC 6632

NGC 6632

NGC 6632 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Hercules about 222 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about 1.5 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,691 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
222 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
155k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
4,691 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 222 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6632 as it looked roughly 222 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 6665Spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 4697Spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 6623 NED02Elliptical16 million ly
apart
NGC 6628Lenticular17 million ly
apart
NGC 6581Elliptical18 million ly
apart
NGC 6697Elliptical19 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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