Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253) — galaxy, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.
A dusty, near-edge-on spiral so thick with newborn stars and dark lanes that it is sometimes called the Silver Dollar — the brightest galaxy of the group just south of our own.
Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253) 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.