The Large Magellanic Cloud (Sean Liang)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Dorado (Dor) · Contains: 30 Dor Cluster · NGC 1820 · NGC 1845 · NGC 1901 · NGC 2001 · NGC 2052 · NGC 2070 · NGC 2081 · Tarantula Nebula · The star β Men · The star θ Dor

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The Large Magellanic Cloud

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The Large Magellanic Cloud

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On a clear, cloudless summer night in the southern hemisphere, two big, bright smudges of light hang over the southern horizon like two stubborn clouds refusing to dissipate. Those are the Magellanic Clouds, the satellite galaxies in our cosmic neighbourhood. Billions of stars contribute to the shine of the small galaxy, and the light travelled hundreds of thousands of years in space to reach us.

A closer at the target reveals its true chaotic nature. The pinkish parts peppered across the galaxy are a massive collection of supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and star clusters. Intense radiations from those active targets energise the nearby hydrogen gases, causing them to glow like neons. The most striking among them is the Tarantula Nebula, a sprawling gas cloud that makes one of the largest star-forming regions in the local Universe.

(The data was acquired from Telescope Live, which I processed using pixinsight and photoshop).

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