IC 5122

IC 5122 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Capricornus about 476 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 90,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 476 million years ago.

Because its light is 476 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5122 as it looked roughly 476 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).