NGC 3212

NGC 3212 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 456 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,769 km/s.

Because its light is 456 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3212 as it looked roughly 456 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). 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).