54 million light-years is an absurdly large correction to the tidy Virgo figure: in that patch of sky sits the Virgo Cluster, a galaxy cluster holding thousands of galaxies. The drawing lies. What appears to be one harvest maiden is instead a line-of-sight accident, with nearby stars and distant extragalactic light pinned to the same flat dome.The sky cheats. Virgo's named stars are a foreground s...More