M90 — galaxy, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.
A large spiral escaping the Virgo Cluster — its star-forming gas already stripped away by the cluster, leaving smooth, “anemic” arms wound tight around a bright core.
M90 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.