Bode’s Galaxy (M81) — galaxy, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.
A textbook spiral whose tidy arms were combed into shape by a close pass with its starburst neighbour M82 — the two still tug at each other across a bridge of hydrogen.
Bode’s Galaxy (M81) 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.