NGC 3880
NGC 3880 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 467 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 10,052 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 467 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3880 as it looked roughly 467 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 2960Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2958Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3871Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 2952Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 2946Barred spiral20 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).