NGC 7269

NGC 7269 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 450 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 450 million years ago.

Because its light is 450 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7269 as it looked roughly 450 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).