IC 3446

IC 3446 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 58 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 11,000 ly, about 11% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,211 km/s.

Because its light is 58 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3446 as it looked roughly 58 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).