NGC 976

NGC 976 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Aries about 197 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 88,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,332 km/s.

Because its light is 197 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 976 as it looked roughly 197 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).