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Large Magellanic Cloud
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a nearby galaxy, and a satellite of the Milky Way. At a distance of slightly less than 50 kiloparsecs (≈163,000 light-years), the LMC is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way. It has a mass equivalent to approximately 10 billion times the mass of the Sun, making it roughly 1/100th as massive as the Milky Way, and a diameter of about 14,000 light-years.
It is visible as a faint "cloud" in the night sky of the southern hemisphere straddling the border between the constellations of Dorado and Mensa, and it appears from Earth more than 20 times the width of the full moon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud
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Photo taken at Serpentine Dam.
Canon 7D
Tamron Adaptall 135mm f2.8
30s, ISO 3200
Tracked with a Vixen Polarie
Large Magellanic Cloud
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a nearby galaxy, and a satellite of the Milky Way. At a distance of slightly less than 50 kiloparsecs (≈163,000 light-years), the LMC is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way. It has a mass equivalent to approximately 10 billion times the mass of the Sun, making it roughly 1/100th as massive as the Milky Way, and a diameter of about 14,000 light-years.
It is visible as a faint "cloud" in the night sky of the southern hemisphere straddling the border between the constellations of Dorado and Mensa, and it appears from Earth more than 20 times the width of the full moon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud
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Photo taken at Serpentine Dam.
Canon 7D
Tamron Adaptall 135mm f2.8
30s, ISO 3200
Tracked with a Vixen Polarie