NGC 705

NGC 705 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda about 209 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 88,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,541 km/s.

Because its light is 209 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 705 as it looked roughly 209 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).