NGC 6680

NGC 6680 is a galaxy in the constellation Hercules about 189 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 35,000 ly, about 35% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 189 million years ago.

Because its light is 189 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6680 as it looked roughly 189 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). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).