IC 2498
IC 2498
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
462 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 462 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2498 as it looked roughly 462 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 2505Spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 2495Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 2506Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 558Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 2981Spiral34 million ly
apartIC 2466Elliptical43 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2495Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 2506Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 558Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 2981Spiral34 million ly
apartIC 2466Elliptical43 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).