IC 4298
IC 4298
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
313 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
146k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 313 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4298 as it looked roughly 313 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 4320Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 5260Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4350Lenticular37 million ly
apartIC 4374Elliptical38 million ly
apartNGC 5393Barred spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 5495Spiral44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5260Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4350Lenticular37 million ly
apartIC 4374Elliptical38 million ly
apartNGC 5393Barred spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 5495Spiral44 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).