NGC 5813
NGC 5813 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 90 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,924 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 90 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5813 as it looked roughly 90 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 5864Lenticular6.2 million ly
apartNGC 5768Spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 5869Lenticular8.9 million ly
apartNGC 5719Spiral9.7 million ly
apartNGC 5691Spiral9.7 million ly
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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).