NGC 295
NGC 295 is a galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 216 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 37,000 ly, about 37% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 5,477 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 216 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 295 as it looked roughly 216 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 338Spiral7.8 million ly
apartIC 1619Lenticular8.5 million ly
apartNGC 266Spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 66Spiral8.8 million ly
apartNGC 392Elliptical9.3 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).