NGC 7276

NGC 7276 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Lacerta about 278 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 81,000 ly, about 81% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 278 million years ago.

Because its light is 278 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7276 as it looked roughly 278 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).