NGC 5294

NGC 5294 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 92 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 34,000 ly, about 34% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 92 million years ago.

Because its light is 92 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5294 as it looked roughly 92 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).