NGC 6181

NGC 6181 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Hercules about 111 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 77,000 ly, about 77% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,253 km/s.

Because its light is 111 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6181 as it looked roughly 111 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).