NGC 7663

NGC 7663 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 267 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 30,000 ly, about 30% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 267 million years ago.

Because its light is 267 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7663 as it looked roughly 267 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).