NGC 3784
NGC 3784 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 321 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 87,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,854 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 321 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3784 as it looked roughly 321 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.
apartNGC 3728Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3713Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 3714Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 3761Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 3832Spiral21 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).