Thursday, April 28, 2011

APOD 4.3





The Large Magellanic Cloud is an amazing sight that can be seen in the dark southern skies and is located in the constellation Dorado.  Its located 180,000 light-years away.  This picture also contains the tarantula nebula which is by far the LMCs largest star forming region.  The Large Magellanic Cloud is about 15,000 light-years across.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110426.html


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