NGC 2267

NGC 2267 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Canis Major about 72 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 36,000 ly, about 36% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 72 million years ago.

Because its light is 72 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2267 as it looked roughly 72 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).