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Large Magellanic Cloud
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located about 160,000–200,000 light‑years away in the southern constellations Dorado and Mensa. Roughly 10,000 light‑years across, it is rich in star-forming regions—such as the Tarantula Nebula—and contains billions of stars.
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APODs including "Large Magellanic Cloud"
Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula
26/10/2025
NGC 206 and the Star Clouds of Andromeda
28/11/2024
Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744
01/11/2024
The Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy
02/10/2024
NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery
25/04/2024
The Tarantula Zone
08/03/2024
The Large Cloud of Magellan
07/09/2023
The Tarantula Nebula from SuperBIT
27/04/2023
NGC 2419: Intergalactic Wanderer
13/04/2023
NGC 206 and the Star Clouds of Andromeda
12/04/2023
Deep Field: The Large Magellanic Cloud
07/03/2023
NGC 1850: Not Found in the Milky Way
20/02/2023
The Gum Nebula Supernova Remnant
29/11/2022
The Tarantula Zone
16/09/2022
Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744
23/06/2022
N11: Star Clouds of the LMC
12/04/2022
From Orion to the Southern Cross
18/01/2022
Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula
24/10/2021
Night Sky Reflected
13/09/2021
Southern Sky from 38,000 Feet
30/01/2021
Star Cluster R136 Breaks Out
10/01/2021
The Small Cloud of Magellan
05/01/2021
The Tarantula Zone
13/11/2020
Ghost Fungus to Magellanic Cloud
23/05/2020
Hubble's Cosmic Reef
25/04/2020
Milky Way and Zodiacal Light over Chile
09/03/2020
N63A: Supernova Remnant in Visible and X-ray
11/12/2019
Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744
05/12/2019
Night Sky Reflections from the World's Largest Mirror
22/10/2019
The Large Cloud of Magellan
05/09/2019