Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) RGB Image (Eric Coles (coles44))

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Tucana (Tuc) · Contains: NGC 299 · NGC 306 · NGC 330 · NGC 346 · NGC 371 · NGC 416

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Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) RGB Image

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Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) RGB Image

This is the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) RGB Image. It has so many stars you need to expand it to the full resolution in order to appreciate how many. This is only the RGB data which emphasizes star color. And it is only a small portion of the SMC.

Here is what Wikipedia says about the SMC.

"The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), or Nubecula Minor, is a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way. It is classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy. It has a diameter of about 7,000 light-years, contains several hundred million stars, and has a total mass of approximately 7 billion times the mass of the Sun. The SMC contains a central bar structure and it is speculated that it was once a barred spiral galaxy that was disrupted by the Milky Way to become somewhat irregular. At a distance of about 200,000 light-years, it is one of the Milky Way's nearest intergalactic neighbors. It is also one of the most distant objects that can be seen with the naked eye."

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RA (center)	01h00m19s.58
RA (top/left)	01h09m04s.55
RA (top/right)	00h51m30s.57
RA (bottom/right)	00h51m01s.41
RA (bottom/left)	01h09m41s.10

Dec (center)	-72°12′43″.1
Dec (top/left)	-71°38′36″.9
Dec (top/right)	-71°38′57″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	-72°45′17″.4
Dec (bottom/left)	-72°44′54″.9

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