IC 498
IC 498
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
473 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
166k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 473 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 498 as it looked roughly 473 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 2499Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 2496Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 2231Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 505Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 2226Spiral71 million ly
apartIC 517Spiral82 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2496Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 2231Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 505Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 2226Spiral71 million ly
apartIC 517Spiral82 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).