NGC 6719
NGC 6719 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pavo about 178 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 86,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,772 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 178 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6719 as it looked roughly 178 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 4712Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4773Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4704Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 4705Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6776ABarred spiral17 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).