NGC 2974
NGC 2974 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Sextans about 92 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 93,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,006 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 92 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2974 as it looked roughly 92 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 560Lenticular8.3 million ly
apartNGC 3023Spiral8.5 million ly
apartNGC 3018Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 2978Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 2966Spiral14 million ly
apart
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).