IC 1998
IC 1998
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
529 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
118k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 529 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1998 as it looked roughly 529 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 1462Spiral82 million ly
apartNGC 1254Elliptical87 million ly
apartIC 1967Barred spiral89 million ly
apartIC 325Spiral92 million ly
apartNGC 1468Elliptical94 million ly
apartNGC 1450Elliptical97 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1254Elliptical87 million ly
apartIC 1967Barred spiral89 million ly
apartIC 325Spiral92 million ly
apartNGC 1468Elliptical94 million ly
apartNGC 1450Elliptical97 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).