Large Magellanic Cloud #1
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Large Magellanic Cloud #1
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This image from the Hubble Space Telescope depicts the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies. This scene shows a stellar nursery known as N159, an HII region over 150 light-years across. N159 contains many hot young stars. These stars are emitting intense ultraviolet light, which causes nearby hydrogen gas to glow, and torrential stellar winds, which are carving out ridges, arcs, and filaments from the surrounding material. At the heart of this cosmic cloud lies the Papillon Nebula, a butterfly-shaped region of nebulosity. This small, dense object is classified as a High-Excitation Blob, and is thought to be tightly linked to the early stages of massive star formation. N159 is located over 160,000 light-years away.
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March 27th, 2017
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