NGC 4082

NGC 4082 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 326 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 74,000 ly, about 74% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 326 million years ago.

Because its light is 326 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4082 as it looked roughly 326 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.

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).