NGC 1989

NGC 1989 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Columba about 501 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 250,000 ly, about 2.5 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 10,782 km/s.

Because its light is 501 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1989 as it looked roughly 501 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). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).