NGC 19
NGC 19 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda about 224 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 79,000 ly, about 79% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 224 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 224 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 19 as it looked roughly 224 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.
apartNGC 21Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apartNGC 7836Elliptical6.9 million ly
apartNGC 39Spiral7.9 million ly
apartNGC 6Elliptical8.3 million ly
apartNGC 43Lenticular8.4 million ly
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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).