Magellanic cloud

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.

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…

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Large Magellanic Cloud

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

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

Image Archive

Sharpless 2-106 as imaged by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawai‘i. This color composite image shows the nursery of a massive star (hidden within the cloud) obtained with four narrow-band optical filters available for Gemini users at both Gemini North and South.

Magellanic Galaxy NGC 55! 📷Acquisition - Eric Benson Processing - Dietmar Hager #space #astronomy #stars #galaxy