NGC 439

NGC 439 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Sculptor about 268 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 260,000 ly, about 2.6 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,763 km/s.

Because its light is 268 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 439 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.

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).