Sunflower Galaxy (M63) — galaxy, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.
Instead of two clean arms, a tangle of short golden filaments swirls around its core like the seeds of a sunflower — a galaxy wrapped in a faint stream from a shredded dwarf.
Sunflower Galaxy (M63) 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.