NGC 6051

NGC 6051 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Serpens about 452 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 350,000 ly, about 3.5 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,548 km/s.

Because its light is 452 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6051 as it looked roughly 452 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).