Large Magellanic Cloud and Cluster Locations (IMAGE)

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research

Large Magellanic Cloud and Cluster Locations

Caption

This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope features the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy. Overlaying the image are circles showing the locations of 15 star clusters where multiple generations of stars have been discovered.

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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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