NGC 3074
NGC 3074 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor about 239 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,102 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 239 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3074 as it looked roughly 239 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 2516Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 3126Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 2561Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 2515Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 2831Elliptical35 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).