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Large Magellanic Cloud

A cluster of stars is forming the nebula NGC 2014, located about 160,000 light years from Earth in a neighboring galaxy.
Cosmic beauty and terror mark the 30th anniversary of Hubble Space Telescope
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Apr 24, 2020
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eROSITA is now scanning the skies for X-rays
Phil Plait
Oct 23, 2019
eROSITA observation of the interacting galaxy clusters Abell 3391 and 3395. An image in three X-ray colors shows the clusters (left), and a different view highlights the gas connecting them (right).
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The Milky Way stole a lot of its satellite galaxies from another small galaxy
Phil Plait
Oct 15, 2019
The Milky Way is a disk galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars. A new study indicates it underwent a burst of vigorous star formation that peaked about 2 billion years ago. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech)
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Reassessing an irregular spiral: A spectacular image of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Phil Plait
Oct 4, 2019
The Tarantula Nebula in infrared isn’t quite as showy as it is in visible light, but it’s still impressive.  Credit: ESO/VMC Survey
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'Amateur' astronomers create an incredible 1000+ hour image of a galactic neighbor
Phil Plait
Apr 24, 2019
The Tarantula Nebula is a sprawling gas cloud in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and one of the largest star-forming regions in the local Universe. Credit: Jean Claude Canonne, Philippe Bernhard, Didier Chaplain, Nicolas Outters, and Laurent Bourgon
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The imperfect perfection of the star cluster NGC 1898
Phil Plait
Mar 11, 2019
A close-up of the reddish splotch in the globular cluster NGC 1898. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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