NGC 7232A

NGC 7232A

NGC 7232A is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Grus about 112 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 71,000 ly, about 71% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,358 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
112 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
2,358 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 112 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7232A as it looked roughly 112 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 7166Elliptical6.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7162Spiral8.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7162ASpiral9.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7232BBarred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 7107Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 7097Elliptical14 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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