NGC 4376

NGC 4376 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 52 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 20,000 ly, about 20% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,163 km/s.

Because its light is 52 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4376 as it looked roughly 52 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). 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).