Magellanic cloud

The Large Magellanic Cloud On a clear, cloudless summer night in the southern hemisphere, two big, bright smudges of light hang over the southern horizon like two stubborn clouds refusing to dissipate. Those are the Magellanic Clouds, the satellite galaxies in our cosmic neighbourhood. Billions of stars contribute to the shine of the small galaxy, and the light travelled hundreds of thousands of years in space to reach us. A closer at the target reveals its true chaotic nature. The pinkish…

Large Magellanic Cloud. Optical image of the irregular dwarf galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), around 170,000 light years away in the constellations of Dorado and Mensa.

LHA 120-N11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud Nearly 200 000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our...

The tip of the "wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this view from NASA's Great Observatories.

Shot using the telescope live remote observatory. 20 minutes each of SHO. Using the new CHI-5 widefield rig.

This image - made with a special filter - shows the outskirts of a much-studied nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, called the Tarantula Nebula.

N44, Heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud

The Hubble Space Telescope provided a peek at the Abell 370 cluster four billion light-years from Earth.

"We are on Earth. Earth is within the Solar System about 93 million miles from the Sun. That sun is a star located in the Orion Arm. The Orion Arm of the galaxy is about 26,000 lightyears from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy is located within the Local Group, which is a cluster of more than 54 galaxies including our own, our neighbor galaxies the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, Andromeda, Triangulum, and many others..." Neil DeGrass Tyson Facebook page 23-02-23