NGC 2783
NGC 2783 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cancer about 314 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 180,000 ly, about 1.8 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,696 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 314 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2783 as it looked roughly 314 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.
apartIC 2444Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 2796Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2789Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 2832Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 2834Elliptical24 million ly
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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).