NGC 89
NGC 89 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Phoenix about 179 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 65,000 ly, about 65% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,283 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 179 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 89 as it looked roughly 179 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 88Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 92Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7796Elliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 454 NED02Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 454 NED01Elliptical33 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).