Located 50-to-60 million light-years distant, the galaxies of the Virgo Cluster are all gravitationally bound to one another. With well over 1,000 galaxies in there, many of them are interacting, show evidence of recent mergers, or have long since settled into giant, red elliptical galaxies: the same fate our far future holds for our local group!

But if you look at the right place in Virgo, there’s a large, Milky Way-sized galaxy all by its lonesome, undisturbed by the chaos surrounding it. Come meet Messier 88, and let’s discover how to find it together!