Hubble Studies the Tarantula Nebula’s Outskirts

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy situated about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa. Despite being only 10–20% as massive as the Milky Way galaxy, the Large Magellanic […]
Posted on January 24, 2025
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