IC 700 NED04

IC 700 NED04 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Leo about 78 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 5,700 ly, about 6% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 78 million years ago.

Because its light is 78 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 700 NED04 as it looked roughly 78 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).