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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"
Magellanic Galaxy NGC 55
12/07/2019
Clouds of the Large Magellanic Cloud
03/05/2019
N11: Star Clouds of the LMC
29/04/2019
Henize 70: A Superbubble in the LMC
04/02/2019
The Tarantula Nebula
17/11/2018
NGC 1898: Globular Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud
03/10/2018
Irregular Galaxy NGC 55
21/09/2018
Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744
10/08/2018
Milky Way over Deadvlei in Namibia
18/04/2018
The Complete Galactic Plane: Up and Down
13/03/2018
Clouds in the LMC
19/01/2018
The Tarantula Nebula
16/11/2017
Under the Galaxy
13/10/2017
Milky Way over Chilean Volcanoes
21/08/2017
NGC 4449: Close-up of a Small Galaxy
14/07/2017
The N44 Superbubble
25/06/2017
Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744
26/05/2017
The Mysterious Rings of Supernova 1987A
05/03/2017
N159 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
28/01/2017
Shell Game in the LMC
29/12/2016
The Cosmic Web of the Tarantula Nebula
08/11/2016
Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula
30/10/2016
Deep Magellanic Clouds Image Indicates Collisions
25/07/2016
Close Comet and Large Magellanic Cloud
17/03/2016
The Tarantula Nebula
26/02/2016
Star Cluster R136 Bursts Out
24/01/2016
Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud
14/01/2016
Southern Craters and Galaxies
26/12/2015
The Large Cloud of Magellan
27/08/2015
NGC 2419: Intergalactic Wanderer
04/06/2015