NGC 1085
NGC 1085 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 316 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 190,000 ly, about 1.9 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,980 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 316 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1085 as it looked roughly 316 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.
apartIC 1843Barred spiral4.3 million ly
apartIC 1836Galaxy5.2 million ly
apartIC 244Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 246Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 241Elliptical16 million ly
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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).