Triangulum Galaxy

Triangulum Galaxy — galaxy, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.

The third-largest galaxy in the Local Group and a possible satellite of Andromeda — a loose, flocculent spiral whose giant star-forming region NGC 604 dwarfs the Orion Nebula.

Type
Spiral galaxy (SA(s)cd)
Distance
2.7 million light-years
Stars
~40 billion
Note
The most distant object visible to the naked eye

Seeing Triangulum Galaxy in real time

Triangulum 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.

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