NGC 98
NGC 98
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
291 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
137k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 291 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 98 as it looked roughly 291 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
IC 1627Barred spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 319Spiral47 million ly
apartIC 1625Elliptical50 million ly
apartNGC 322Lenticular53 million ly
apartIC 1630Barred spiral53 million ly
apartIC 1595Barred spiral56 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 319Spiral47 million ly
apartIC 1625Elliptical50 million ly
apartNGC 322Lenticular53 million ly
apartIC 1630Barred spiral53 million ly
apartIC 1595Barred spiral56 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).