IC 698

IC 698 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo about 291 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 88,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,189 km/s.

Because its light is 291 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 698 as it looked roughly 291 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).