#magellanic cloud

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A cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. PA

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Within the LMC Galaxy

[inefekt]

Summer Milky Way at Damboring Lakes, Western Australia

Nikon d810a - 35mm - ISO 3200 - f/2.0 Foreground: 7 x 15 seconds Sky: 17 x 25 seconds H-Alpha: 2 x 60 seconds iOptron SkyTracker

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A Dwarf Galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud ©

[spacetelescopescience]

This young star cluster shines like a kaleidoscope thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope's near- and mid-infrared instruments. NGC 602 is in our neighboring dwarf galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA.

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𝐉𝐨𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐟 𝐀𝐫𝐜 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐀𝐬 𝐒𝐍𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟕𝐚 ✩

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Two galaxies suspended over an aurora by u/ThatAstroGuyNZ via r/Stargazing

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Photograph of the Large Magellanic Cloud, n.d.

[livingforstars]

Supernova 1987a Fireball Resolved - January 24th, 1997.

"During 1987, the most notable supernova of modern times was observed. In February of that year, light reached Earth from a star which exploded in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud. The explosion catapulted a tremendous amount of gas, light, and neutrinos into interstellar space. When observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in 1994, large, strange rings were discovered, whose origin is still mysterious, although thought to have been expelled even before the main explosion. More HST observations, that are shown in the inset, however, uncovered something actually predicted: the expanding fireball from the exploding star. The above high resolution images resolve two blobs flung out from the central explosion."

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Tarantula Nebula !

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of a star-forming region containing massive, young, blue stars in 30 Doradus, the Tarantula Nebula. Located within the Large Magellanic Cloud, this is one of the regions observed by a newly-completed survey named ULLYSES.

Some stars are so massive and so energetic that they’re a million times brighter than the Sun. This type of star dominated the early Universe, playing a key role in its development and evolution. The first of its kind are all gone now, but the modern Universe still forms stars of this type.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Francesco Paresce (INAF-IASF Bologna), Robert O'Connell (UVA), SOC-WFC3, ESO

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[ This long-duration photograph looks out a window on the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft to the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two irregular dwarf galaxies, as the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico. Credit: NASA/Don Pettit ]

[ This long-duration photograph looks out a window on the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft to the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two irregular dwarf galaxies, as the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above the Pacific Ocean northeast of Australia. Credit: NASA/Don Pettit ]

[ This long-duration photograph looks out a window on the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft to the Milky Way as the International Space Station orbited 262 miles above the Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand. Credit: NASA/Don Pettit ]

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Large Magellanic Cloud

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Summer Milky Way at Lake Ninan, Western Australia

Nikon d810a - 50mm - ISO 6400 - f/2.8 Foreground: 7 x 6 seconds Sky: 24 x 30 seconds iOptron SkyTracker

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

2005 January 18

NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Credit: A. Nota (ESA/STScI) et al., ESA, NASA

A satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a wonder of the southern sky, a mere 210,000 light-years distant in the constellation Tucana. Found among the SMC's clusters and nebulae NGC 346 is a star forming region about 200 light-years across, pictured above by the Hubble Space Telescope. Exploring NGC 346, astronomers have identified a population of embryonic stars strung along the dark, intersecting dust lanes visible here on the right. Still collapsing within their natal clouds, the stellar infants' light is reddened by the intervening dust. A small, irregular galaxy, the SMC itself represents a type of galaxy more common in the early Universe. But these small galaxies are thought to be a building blocks for the larger galaxies present today. Within the SMC, stellar nurseries like NGC 346 are also thought to be similar to those found in the early Universe.

Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA)

NASA Official: Jay Norris.

A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC

& Michigan Tech. U.

[spacetelescopescience]

Hubble witnessed a dwarf galaxy crashing through the Milky Way galaxy’s gaseous halo and living to tell the tale … though a bit worse for wear! https://bit.ly/3YCVcUE

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The Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus) in the Large Magellanic Cloud // Anthony Knepp