Large Magellanic Cloud — galaxy, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.
The Milky Way’s brightest companion galaxy, visible from the southern hemisphere as a detached wisp of sky. Supernova 1987A flared here — the closest seen in centuries.
Large Magellanic Cloud 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.