NGC 1316A

NGC 1316A is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Fornax about 584 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 180,000 ly, about 1.8 times the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 584 million years ago.

Because its light is 584 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1316A as it looked roughly 584 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).