Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud (January 15, 2012)
This photograph is an infrared portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that neighbors the Milky Way. A composite image taken from the Herschel Space Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope, the coloring of the dust indicates the formation of stars. The Large Magellanic Cloud is only 160,000 light-years away, but 30,000 light-years across.
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