NGC 7817
NGC 7817 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 108 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,157 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 108 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7817 as it looked roughly 108 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 7468Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 7465Lenticular29 million ly
apartIC 1596Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 7448Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 7800Irregular30 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).