IC 598
IC 598
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
105 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 105 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 598 as it looked roughly 105 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 3320Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2461Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 3595Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 3614Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 3583Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 2799Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2461Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 3595Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 3614Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 3583Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 2799Barred spiral25 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).