M94 — galaxy, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.
A spiral wrapped in a glowing ring of new stars around a bright golden core — and oddly short of the dark-matter halo almost every other galaxy carries.
M94 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.