NGC 5961

NGC 5961 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Corona Borealis about 82 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 19,000 ly, about 19% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,821 km/s.

Because its light is 82 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5961 as it looked roughly 82 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).