NGC 7253A
NGC 7253A is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 219 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 99,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,686 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 219 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7253A as it looked roughly 219 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.
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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).