#large magellanic cloud

[the-wolf-and-moon]

LMC N44C, Within the Large Magellanic Cloud

[spacewonder19]

Cloudscape in Large Magellanic Cloud ©

[quiltofstars]

The Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus, top) in the LMC // Cankun Wang

[spacetelescopescience]

Thick clouds of cold hydrogen gas dominate this view of N159 from the Hubble Space Telescope, forming a complex network of ridges, cavities, and glowing filaments. Embedded within these dense clouds, newly formed stars shine, their intense light causing the surrounding hydrogen to glow in deep red tones.

The brightest regions mark the presence of hot, massive young stars whose powerful stellar winds and energetic light reshape their environment. These forces carve out bubble-like structures and hollowed cavities in the gas, and are clear signatures of stellar feedback in action. Dark clouds in the foreground are lit from behind by new stars.

N159 is one of the most massive star-forming clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is the largest of the small galaxies that orbit our Milky Way. This image shows just a portion of this expansive star-forming complex, as the entire complex stretches over 150 light-years across.

Credit: ESA, NASA, R. Indebetouw.

[inefekt]

Milky Way at York, Western Australia

Nikon d810a - 50mm - ISO 6400 - f/2.5 - Foreground: 7 x 30 seconds - Sky: 35 x 30 seconds - iOptron SkyTracker - Hoya Red Intensifier filter

[cosmonautroger]

Large Magellanic Cloud

[livingforstars]

30 Doradus Across the Spectrum - December 24th, 1997.

"30 Doradus is lit up like a Christmas tree. Shining in light across the electromagnetic spectrum, 30 Doradus glows because of all the energetic processes that go on there. A distinctive region visible in a Milky Way satellite galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, 30 Doradus is a hotbed of star formation, supernova explosions, and ionised plasma. The above image is a composite of three pictures taken in three different wavelength bands of light. Red represents X-ray emission created by gas as hot as 1 million degrees Kelvin. Green represents emission from ionised hydrogen gas, and blue represents ultraviolet radiation primarily emitted by hot stars. At the conclusion of this symphony of star formation and light in a few million years, astronomers expect that a new globular cluster will have formed."

[refuge-in-oblivion]

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honestly don't know why i'm posting this. i guess i have nothing else to do or to live for