All Science, all the time The Large Magellanic Cloud is an irregular galaxy that is 163,00 light years from the Milky Way. Goodnight Facebook. ♥ "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 galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it slowly collapse to form new stars. In turn, these light up the gas clouds in a riot of colors, visible in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is ablaze with star-forming regions. From the Tarantula Nebula, the brightest stellar nursery in our cosmic neighborhood, to LHA 120-N 11, part of which is featured in this Hubble image, the small and irregular galaxy is scattered with glowing nebulae, the most noticeable sign that new stars are being born." From: nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2434.html#.UdOUzfmcfXN
Posted on: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 07:40:20 +0000
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