LMC Composite and Clusters Pullout (IMAGE)

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research

LMC Composite and Clusters Pullout

Caption

Left: This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy. Overlaying the image are the locations of 15 star clusters where multiple generations of stars have been discovered. Right: A closer view of four of the star clusters where young stellar objects have been detected. The crosses mark the locations of young stars and the squares in the main image show the locations of these four clusters.

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Credit: Karl Gordon and Margaret Meixner - Space Telescope Science Institute/AURA/NASA. Compilation by Bi-Qing For and Kenji Bekki (ICRAR/UWA).

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