NGC 526A
NGC 526A is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Sculptor about 265 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 265 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 265 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 526A as it looked roughly 265 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.
apartNGC 527Lenticular3.8 million ly
apartNGC 568Elliptical5.3 million ly
apartNGC 574Barred spiral6.0 million ly
apartNGC 527BBarred spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 461Spiral9.1 million ly
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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).