NGC 3907
NGC 3907 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 268 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 83,000 ly, about 83% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 6,034 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 268 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3907 as it looked roughly 268 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 3979Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 754Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 3907BBarred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 2974Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 716Barred 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).