NGC 71
NGC 71 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Andromeda about 312 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 180,000 ly, about 1.8 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,716 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 312 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 71 as it looked roughly 312 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.
apartNGC 72AElliptical5.8 million ly
apartNGC 72Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 27Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 140Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 67Galaxy19 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).