The Large
Magellanic Cloud outside our Milky Way galaxy teems with new star formation
while collecting the remains of old, dead stars.
Sitting about
160,000 light-years away, the Large Magellanic Cloud is on of the nearest
bodies of stars outside our own galaxy. Its sister cloud, the Small Magellanic
Cloud, sits about 200,000 light-years away.
Astronomers
assembled more than 1,500 individual images to build this view - released this
week at the 207th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington D.C. - of the Large Magellanic Cloud as part of the Magellanic Cloud Emission
Line Survey. Led by a team at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, the
survey focused on the role of the dusty interstellar medium inside the clouds.
-- SPACE.com Staff
Credit: C. Smith, S. Points, the MCELS Team and NOAO/AURA/NSF.
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