NGC 1131

NGC 1131 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Perseus about 249 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 39,000 ly, about 39% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 249 million years ago.

Because its light is 249 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1131 as it looked roughly 249 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).