NGC 1561

NGC 1561 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 420 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 170,000 ly, about 1.7 times the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 420 million years ago.

Because its light is 420 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1561 as it looked roughly 420 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).