Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), Gaia image. The LMC is about 7000 light years wide. It is part of the Local Group of galaxies that includes the Milky Way. It is around 200, 000 light years from Earth in the constellation of Tucana. This view is not a photograph but has been compiled by mapping the total amount of radiation detected by ESA's Gaia spacecraft in each pixel, combined with measurements of the radiation taken through different filters to generate colour information. At left of the galaxy is the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Image published in 2018. | |
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