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starlight reflecting off Thuraggi irrigation channel, St George, Queensland, Australia

The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud can be seen overhead. The LMC is a satellite dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way that is among the closest galaxies to Earth. At about 163,000 light-years from Earth, the dwarf galaxy looks like a faint cloud in Southern Hemisphere skies. The SMC, or Nebucula Minor, is a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way. It is classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy. Red and green bands of airglow can also be seen in the night sky and in the reflection of the sky on the water.

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Uploaded on November 21, 2016
Taken on November 18, 2016