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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"
The Seahorse of the Large Magellanic Cloud
30/11/2014
NGC 206 and the Star Clouds of Andromeda
25/09/2014
Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744
08/08/2014
The Tarantula Zone
12/06/2014
Three Galaxies over New Zealand
11/06/2014
An ALMA Telescope Array Time-Lapse
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26/05/2014
The Cosmic Web of the Tarantula Nebula
17/02/2014
Night in the Andes Ice Forest
07/09/2013
Atacama's Cloudy Night
27/07/2013
The Large Magellanic Cloud in Ultraviolet
10/06/2013
The Large Cloud of Magellan
28/05/2013
Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud
23/03/2013
N11: Star Clouds of the LMC
11/02/2013
Namibian Nights
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04/02/2013
NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery
11/12/2012
NGC 206 and the Star Clouds of Andromeda
24/10/2012
Star Cluster R136 Bursts Out
29/07/2012
Star Formation in the Tarantula Nebula
16/05/2012
The Mysterious Rings of Supernova 1987A
26/02/2012
NGC 4449: Star Stream for a Dwarf Galaxy
26/01/2012
Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud
15/01/2012
Hydrogen in the LMC
26/04/2011
NGC 4449: Close-up of a Small Galaxy
25/02/2011
The Rippled Red Ribbons of SNR 0509
25/01/2011
The Cosmic Web of the Tarantula Nebula
11/01/2011
Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula
31/10/2010
The Large Cloud of Magellan
16/10/2010
The Small Cloud of Magellan
03/09/2010
Fast Gas Bullet from Cosmic Blast N49
30/06/2010
Tentacles of the Tarantula Nebula
18/05/2010