NGC 7274
NGC 7274 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Lacerta about 276 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,820 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 276 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7274 as it looked roughly 276 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 7240Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 7263Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 7242 NED01Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 7318BBarred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 7320CLenticular16 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).