NGC 2594

NGC 2594 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cancer about 110 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 29,000 ly, about 29% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 110 million years ago.

Because its light is 110 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2594 as it looked roughly 110 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).