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Large Magellanic Cloud

Photo: Glowing debris from an exploded star

Sheets of debris from an exploded star swirl in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) galaxy in this Hubble Space Telescope image. At a distance of about 180,000 light years, the LMC galaxy is a relatively close neighbor of the Milky Way. It can be spotted from the Earth's Southern Hemisphere without a telescope.

Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)