IC 3054

IC 3054 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 60 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 12,000 ly, about 12% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 60 million years ago.

Because its light is 60 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3054 as it looked roughly 60 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).