NGC 702 NED02

NGC 702 NED02 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 506 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about 1.5 times the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 506 million years ago.

Because its light is 506 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 702 NED02 as it looked roughly 506 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).