NGC 6707
NGC 6707 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Telescopium about 126 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 96,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,729 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 126 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6707 as it looked roughly 126 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.
apartIC 4821Spiral5.3 million ly
apartNGC 6708Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 4837Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apartIC 4839Barred spiral6.8 million ly
apartIC 4782Spiral8.3 million ly
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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).