IC 3557 NED02

IC 3557 NED02 is a galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 1.1 billion ly from Earth. It spans roughly 32,000 ly, about 32% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 1.1 billion years ago.

Because its light is 1.1 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 3557 NED02 as it looked roughly 1.1 billion 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).