IC 1635

IC 1635 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 877 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 290,000 ly, about 2.9 times the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 877 million years ago.

Because its light is 877 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1635 as it looked roughly 877 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.

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).