The Andromeda galaxy, 2.5 million light-years away, is the most distant object easily seen with the naked eye.
Why it is true
Under a dark sky it appears as a faint, elongated smudge. The light we see left it about 2.5 million years ago, when the first humans of the genus Homo were only just emerging in Africa.
Source: NASA Science
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