Look at it the right angle, and it looks like a skull!
Big, diffuse, and faint!
Part of the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies
Our closest neighbor - except for the Magellanic Clouds which are satellite galaxies of our own Milky Way. 2.5 million light years away (about 14,696,563,400,000,000,000 miles away), and the halos of our galaxies are arleady colliding.
