NGC 1279

NGC 1279 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Perseus about 335 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 57,000 ly, about 57% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 335 million years ago.

Because its light is 335 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1279 as it looked roughly 335 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).