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A starry night, in another galaxy
When we look up at our own night sky, most of the stars we see are the familiar residents of our Milky Way galaxy. Only a few more distant objects, like the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds , our neighbouring galaxies, peek into our little corner of the cosmos. What this Picture of the Week shows us is a completely different stellar landscape, zooming in to the centre of the Small Magellanic Cloud to reveal what…
- Credit
- ESO
- Telescope
- European Southern Observatory
- Release
- potw2637b
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 — credit required
- Published
- Source
- ESO release page