NGC 7532

NGC 7532

NGC 7532 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 166 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 3,287 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
166 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
3,287 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 166 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7532 as it looked roughly 166 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 7530Lenticular1.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7534Irregular3.5 million ly
apart
NGC 7576Lenticular6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7585Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 7600Elliptical15 million ly
apart
NGC 7506Lenticular15 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).

← all galaxies