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Magellanic Cloud Blog Posts

An Ancient Witness
Cool Photos Girl · 06:42 10 Jun 2024
The globular cluster NGC 2005, featured in this Hubble Picture of the Week, is not unusual in and of itself; but it is a peculiarity in relation to its surroundings. NGC 2005 is located abou… Read More
Two’s Company
Cool Photos Girl · 04:38 01 Apr 2024
This image features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two interacting galaxies: NGC 5996 (the large spiral galaxy) and NGC 5994 (its smaller companion, in the lower le… Read More
No Zoom
Cool Photos Girl · 06:55 25 Mar 2024
This image shows a globular cluster known as NGC 1651. Like the object in another recent Picture of the Week, it is located about 162 000 light-years away in the largest and brightest of the… Read More
An Unlikely Spiral
Cool Photos Girl · 06:00 11 Mar 2024
This image shows LEDA 42160, a galaxy about 52 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. The dwarf galaxy is one of many forcing its way through the comparatively dense gas… Read More
Constellation Guide · 03:17 10 Mar 2024
The Gum Nebula is a large emission nebula located approximately 1,470 light-years away. It occupies 36 degrees of the apparent sky in the direction of the constellations Puppis and Vela. It… Read More
Celestial Fossils
Cool Photos Girl · 07:45 26 Feb 2024
This densely populated group of stars is the globular cluster known as NGC 1841, which is found within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way galaxy that lies… Read More
Constellation Guide · 21:59 03 Feb 2024
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a Magellanic spiral galaxy located 163,000 light-years away. It is the brightest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and one of the nearest galaxies to our… Read More
Cluster In The Cloud
Cool Photos Girl · 05:40 04 Dec 2023
This striking image shows the densely packed globular cluster known as NGC 2210, which is situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The LMC lies about 157 000 light-years from Earth, and… Read More
Constellation Guide · 04:14 12 Nov 2023
47 Tucanae is a bright globular cluster located 14,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Tucana. With an apparent magnitude of 4.09, the cluster is visible to the unaided eye on… Read More
Ts2 Space · 06:11 17 Aug 2023
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, plays the role of a galactic shepherd by controlling the movements of over 60 smaller galaxies. These galaxies, known as satellites, orbit around the Milky Wa… Read More
Constellation Guide · 15:41 10 Aug 2023
The Lobster Nebula is a large emission nebula located approximately 5,900 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. The nebula hosts several massive young star clusters and is one of t… Read More
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