Andromeda Galaxy — galaxy, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.
The nearest major galaxy and the most distant thing visible to the naked eye. It is falling toward the Milky Way — one day the two will merge into a single giant galaxy.
Andromeda Galaxy 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.