NGC 2492

NGC 2492 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Gemini about 310 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,663 km/s.

Because its light is 310 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2492 as it looked roughly 310 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).