IC 4318

IC 4318 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra about 414 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,914 km/s.

Because its light is 414 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4318 as it looked roughly 414 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).