NGC 6948

NGC 6948 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Indus about 153 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 89,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,228 km/s.

Because its light is 153 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6948 as it looked roughly 153 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).