IC 3443

IC 3443 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 83 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 13,000 ly, about 13% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,272 km/s.

Because its light is 83 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3443 as it looked roughly 83 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).