IC 2498 known as PGC 27668, is a type Sb[1] barred spiral galaxy located in constellation Leo.
[2][3] It is located 469 million light-years away from the Solar System[4] and was discovered by Stephane Javelle on April 30, 1896.
SN 2022eaf SN 2022eaf was discovered on March 2, 2022[6] by a team of astronomers, J. Tonry, L. Dennau, H. Weiland from University of Hawaii, A. Heinze, B. Stalder from LSST, A.
Rest from STScl, C, Stubbs from Harvard University along with other colleagues from Queen's University Belfast, Stockholm and ESO,[7] on the behalf of ATLAS program (Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System).
[6] The supernova had a redshift of 0.033006 and was classified as Type Ia.