NGC 7774 NED02

NGC 7774 NED02 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 299 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 79,000 ly, about 79% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 299 million years ago.

Because its light is 299 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7774 NED02 as it looked roughly 299 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).