NGC 6271

NGC 6271 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Hercules about 493 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 96,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 10,578 km/s.

Because its light is 493 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6271 as it looked roughly 493 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).