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                              2023 September 7
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                         The Large Cloud of Magellan
               Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Chris Willocks

   Explanation: The 16th century Portuguese navigator [5]Ferdinand
   Magellan and his crew had plenty of time to study the southern sky
   during the [6]first circumnavigation of planet Earth. As a result, two
   fuzzy cloud-like objects easily visible to southern hemisphere
   skygazers are known as the [7]Clouds of Magellan, now understood to be
   satellite galaxies of our much larger, spiral Milky Way galaxy. About
   160,000 light-years distant in the constellation Dorado, the [8]Large
   Magellanic Cloud is seen in this [9]sharp galaxy portrait. Spanning
   about 15,000 light-years or so, it is the most massive of the Milky
   Way's [10]satellite galaxies and is the home of the [11]closest
   supernova in modern times, [12]SN 1987A. The prominent patch above
   center is 30 Doradus, also known as the magnificent [13]Tarantula
   Nebula, a giant star-forming region about 1,000 light-years across.

                   Tomorrow's picture: large star factory
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   3. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
   4. https://www.instagram.com/chris.willocks/
   5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan
   6. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1519magellan.html
   7. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060809.html
   8. http://messier.seds.org/xtra/ngc/lmc.html
   9. https://www.cwastrophotography.com/the-large-magellanic-cloud-lmc
  10. http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/sattelit.html
  11. http://heritage.stsci.edu/1999/04/
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