NGC 4543

NGC 4543 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 111 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 33,000 ly, about 33% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 111 million years ago.

Because its light is 111 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4543 as it looked roughly 111 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).