NGC 323
NGC 323 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Phoenix about 362 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 190,000 ly, about 1.9 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,779 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 362 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 323 as it looked roughly 362 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 1615Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1617Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 328Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 1650Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 1605Barred spiral30 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).