NGC 7649

NGC 7649 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 581 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 280,000 ly, about 2.8 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 12,514 km/s.

Because its light is 581 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7649 as it looked roughly 581 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). 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).