NGC 6022

NGC 6022 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Serpens about 494 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 11,225 km/s.

Because its light is 494 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6022 as it looked roughly 494 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).