IC 298B
IC 298B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
439 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 439 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 298B as it looked roughly 439 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 298AGalaxy35,000 ly
apartIC 315Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 1218Lenticular29 million ly
apartIC 1931Galaxy34 million ly
apartIC 322Galaxy34 million ly
apartIC 1918Barred spiral38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 315Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 1218Lenticular29 million ly
apartIC 1931Galaxy34 million ly
apartIC 322Galaxy34 million ly
apartIC 1918Barred spiral38 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).