NGC 7332

NGC 7332

NGC 7332 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 57 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 49,000 ly, about 49% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,202 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
57 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
11.1
apparent magnitude
1,202 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 57 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7332 as it looked roughly 57 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 7339Spiral5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7177Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 7241Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 1420 NED02Spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 7250Spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 1420 NED01Spiral20 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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