NGC 4027
NGC 4027 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Corvus about 78 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 80,000 ly, about 80% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,639 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 78 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4027 as it looked roughly 78 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 4024Elliptical1.3 million ly
apartAntennae GalaxiesBarred spiral1.5 million ly
apartNGC 3957Lenticular2.2 million ly
apartNGC 3956Barred spiral2.5 million ly
apartNGC 4027AIrregular3.7 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).