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From : Alan Ianson
Date : Tue Apr 12 2022 00:09:38

                        Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
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                    written by a professional astronomer.

                                2022 April 12

                         N11: Star Clouds of the LMC
               Image Credit: NASA, ESA; Processing: Josh Lake

   Explanation: Massive stars, abrasive winds, mountains of dust, and
   energetic light sculpt one of the largest and most picturesque regions
   of star formation in the Local Group of Galaxies. Known as N11, the
   region is visible on the upper right of many images of its home galaxy,
   the Milky Way neighbor known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The
   featured image was taken for scientific purposes by the Hubble Space
   Telescope and reprocessed for artistry. Although the section imaged
   above is known as NGC 1763, the entire N11 emission nebula is second in
   LMC size only to the Tarantula Nebula. Compact globules of dark dust
   housing emerging young stars are also visible around the image. A
   recent study of variable stars in the LMC with Hubble has helped to
   recalibrate the distance scale of the observable universe, but resulted
   in a slightly different scale than found using the pervasive cosmic
   microwave background.

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