IC 5332

IC 5332, also known as PGC 71775 is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away[2] in the constellation Sculptor. IC 5332 is a delicate spiral galaxy that is unusually faint and beautifully symmetrical. As viewed from earth it is nearly face on. It has a very small central bulge and open spiral arms accounting for its classification (SABc). The galaxy lies in the direction of the galactic south pole.[1]

IC 5332, taken by the NASA/ESA/CSA JWST observatory with its MIRI instrument
IC 5332
HST image of IC 5332
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationSculptor
Right ascension23h 34m 27.5s[1]
Declination−36° 06′ 04″[1]
Redshift701 ± 6 km/s[1]
Distance28.8 Mly (8.84 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (V)10.72[3]
Characteristics
TypeSABc[2]
Apparent size (V)8.128' × 7.762'[1]
Other designations
IC 5332, PGC 71775

IC 5332 is a late type spiral galaxy with observable star formation ongoing, though at such a low rate as to be a stable non-starburst galaxy.[4] It is a somewhat tenuous spiral galaxy with a very low surface brightness of just 23.8 mag/squ arc sec.

See also

References
  1. "NED results for IC 5332".
  2. Scheuermann, Fabian; Kreckel, Kathryn; Anand, Gagandeep S.; Blanc, Guillermo A.; Congiu, Enrico; Santoro, Francesco; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Barnes, Ashley T.; Bigiel, Frank; Glover, Simon C O.; Groves, Brent; Klessen, Ralf S.; Kruijssen, J M Diederik; Rosolowsky, Erik; Schinnerer, Eva; Schruba, Andreas; Watkins, Elizabeth J.; Williams, Thomas G. (2022). "Planetary nebula luminosity function distances for 19 galaxies observed by PHANGS–MUSE". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 511 (4): 6087–6109. arXiv:2201.04641. Bibcode:2022MNRAS.511.6087S. doi:10.1093/mnras/stac110.
  3. "IC 5332". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
  4. "IC5332".


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