They’ve finally done it. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has gotten so far from Earth that its view of some close stars (here, Proxima Centauri) looks different against the background stars than it does on Earth.

If the gif doesn’t play, here’s a stereoscopic view of the star Wolf 359 (New Horizons’ view on the left, Earth’s view on the right):

Very cool. No longer relegated to “artist’s conception” or computer simulations.