NGC 1044 NED01

NGC 1044 NED01 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 291 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 64,000 ly, about 64% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 291 million years ago.

Because its light is 291 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1044 NED01 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). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).