NGC 2927
NGC 2927 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 351 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,556 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 351 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2927 as it looked roughly 351 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.
apartNGC 2931Barred spiral3.0 million ly
apartIC 544Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 2991Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 2988Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 2994Lenticular18 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).