NGC 3047A

NGC 3047A is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Sextans about 286 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 50,000 ly, about 50% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 286 million years ago.

Because its light is 286 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3047A as it looked roughly 286 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.

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).