NGC 985

NGC 985 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 597 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 12,929 km/s.

Because its light is 597 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 985 as it looked roughly 597 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).