NGC 4687

NGC 4687 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 199 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 56,000 ly, about 56% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 675 km/s.

Because its light is 199 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4687 as it looked roughly 199 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).