IC 2980

IC 2980 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Musca about 391 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 230,000 ly, about 2.3 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,352 km/s.

Because its light is 391 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2980 as it looked roughly 391 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). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).