NGC 842

NGC 842 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 177 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 89,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,703 km/s.

Because its light is 177 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 842 as it looked roughly 177 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).