IC 855

IC 855 is a galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 362 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 76,000 ly, about 76% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 362 million years ago.

Because its light is 362 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 855 as it looked roughly 362 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).