NGC 2965
NGC 2965 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor about 312 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,733 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 312 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2965 as it looked roughly 312 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 2500Barred spiral5.3 million ly
apartNGC 2955Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 2530Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 2944 NED01Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2527Barred spiral24 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).