IC 898
IC 898
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
616 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
109k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 616 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 898 as it looked roughly 616 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 5186Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 901Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 889Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 950 NED02Spiral68 million ly
apartNGC 5071Lenticular71 million ly
apartNGC 5059Spiral100 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 901Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 889Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 950 NED02Spiral68 million ly
apartNGC 5071Lenticular71 million ly
apartNGC 5059Spiral100 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).