IC 982
IC 982
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
255 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 255 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 982 as it looked roughly 255 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 983Barred spiral910,000 ly
apartNGC 5490CBarred spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 5504CSpiral13 million ly
apartIC 1000Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 5504BBarred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5504Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5490CBarred spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 5504CSpiral13 million ly
apartIC 1000Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 5504BBarred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5504Barred spiral16 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).