Carina Dwarf — galaxy, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.
A faint southern satellite whose stars formed in several separate episodes — its history reads like a handful of distinct generations.
Carina Dwarf is placed at its true position on the sky and at its real measured distance, not as a flat backdrop. Fly out from the Sun in the live 3D view and watch it change from a point of light into structure as you approach, with the scale bar showing just how far out you have travelled.