NGC 92

NGC 92

NGC 92 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Phoenix about 158 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 76,000 ly, about 76% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,375 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
158 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
3,375 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 158 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 92 as it looked roughly 158 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 88Lenticular4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 87Irregular7.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7796Elliptical21 million ly
apart
NGC 89Lenticular22 million ly
apart
IC 5328Elliptical27 million ly
apart
NGC 7744Elliptical28 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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