IC 4223

IC 4223 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 693 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 693 million years ago.

Because its light is 693 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4223 as it looked roughly 693 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).