NGC 7118
NGC 7118 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Grus about 239 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,115 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 239 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7118 as it looked roughly 239 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.
apartIC 5125Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7117Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 7038Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 7072ASpiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7072Spiral25 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).