IC 4103

IC 4103 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 516 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 516 million years ago.

Because its light is 516 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4103 as it looked roughly 516 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).