NGC 6745 NED01

NGC 6745 NED01 is a galaxy in the constellation Lyra about 212 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 58,000 ly, about 58% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 212 million years ago.

Because its light is 212 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6745 NED01 as it looked roughly 212 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).