NGC 5303

NGC 5303 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 64 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 16,000 ly, about 16% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,348 km/s.

Because its light is 64 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5303 as it looked roughly 64 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).