NGC 2624

NGC 2624 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cancer about 193 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 43,000 ly, about 43% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 193 million years ago.

Because its light is 193 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2624 as it looked roughly 193 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).