NGC 407
NGC 407 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 260 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about 1.5 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,610 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 260 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 407 as it looked roughly 260 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 1648Lenticular4.0 million ly
apartNGC 379Lenticular4.2 million ly
apartNGC 386Elliptical4.7 million ly
apartNGC 447Lenticular4.8 million ly
apartNGC 373Elliptical6.3 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).