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A giant star is changing before our eyes and astronomers are watching in real time
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Cosmography archives
On Two Distribution Maps of the Nebulæ and Clusters in Dr. Dreyer's Catalogue of 1888.
by Sidney Waters (1894)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1894MNRAS..54..526W/abstract
#Cosmology #Cosmography #nebulae #galaxies #nebula #Nebulæ #CosmographyArchives #SidneyWaters #science #astronomy #astrodon #MilkyWay #Galaxy #LargeMagellanicCloud #SmallMagellanicCloud #science #history #Historyofscience #map #maps #heavens #chart #charts #cartography
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Cosmography archives
First Approximation to a Chart of the Nubecula Major, or greater Magellanic Cloud.
by John Herschel (1847)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1847raom.book.....H/abstract#Cosmography #JohnHerschel #LargeMagellanicCloud #LMC #Nubeculae #NubeculaMajor #nebula #galaxies #Cosmology #nebulae #chart #map #cartography #stars #CosmographyArchives #science #astronomy #astrodon #science #history #historyofscience
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Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds
This Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbors, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-captures-cotton-candy-clouds/#Hubble #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #galaxies #LargeMagellanicCloud #LMC #space #science #STEM #galaxy
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The Large Magellanic Cloud is a satellite galaxy of our own, and like ours, it has a Super Massive Black Hole at its centre, holding the whole show together
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/second-closest-supermassive-black-hole/
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#Astrodon , I have a question. I've been taking photos of the LMC - not the main bit where all the action is, but the outskirts.
Do you see the thing that looks somewhat like a planetary nebula, towards the upper right and forming a triangle with NGC 2114 and NGC 2117, looking like a circle with a cluster in it?
I put it into astrometry.net but it hasn't annotated it. I've provided the annotated version too.What is it, does anyone know? It's what led me to target the area in the first place and it looks interesting, I'd like to know more about it.
Otherwise I'm just going to call it Leece's Lucent Pearl 😉
#astronomy #BackYardAstronomy #SouthernHemisphereAstronomy #DrivewayAstrophotography #LargeMagellanicCloud
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#Hypervelocity Stars Trace a Supermassive #BlackHole in the #LargeMagellanicCloud: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00102 -> thread https://bsky.app/profile/emily.space/post/3lhdormxfk223
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Astronaut Takes Epic Photo of Two Satellite Galaxies From Onboard the ISS https://petapixel.com/2024/12/11/astronaut-takes-epic-photo-of-two-satellite-galaxies-from-onboard-the-iss-don-pettit/ #internationalspacestation #largemagellaniccloud #smallmagellaniccloud #barndoortracker #milkywaygalaxy #startracker #Spotlight #donpettit #startrail #galaxies #starlink #Space #NASA #iss
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The Truncated Circumgalactic Medium of the #LargeMagellanicCloud: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11960 -> NASA’s Hubble Sees Aftermath of Galaxy’s Scrape with Milky Way: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-sees-aftermath-of-galaxys-scrape-with-milky-way/
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬
✧ Tarantula Nebula ✧
The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is a large H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). It is one of the largest H II regions in the Local Group, with an estimated diameter around 650 to 1860 light years. It is around 160,000 light-years from Earth and has apparent magnitude of 8. The Tarantula ...
#LargeMagellanicCloud #LocalGroup #Nicolas-LouisdeLacaille #Earth #Wikipedia
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Nice cover image for the current issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics
https://www.aanda.org/from the paper "Observing the LMC with APEX: Signatures of large-scale feedback in the molecular clouds of 30 Doradus" by K. Grishunin and co-authors: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/02/aa47364-23/aa47364-23.html
#AandA #Journal #Astronomy #Astrophysics #cover #art #coverart #LMC #LargeMagellanicCloud #galaxy #30Doradus #galaxies #ISM #molecularclouds #starformation #stars #APEX #Atacama #AtacamaPathfinderExperiment #science #astrodon
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I don't talk about astronomy nearly enough, so let's change that!
One of the most groundbreaking developments in astronomy has been the absolutely mind-blowing work the James Webb Space Telescope has been putting out in a fraction of the time it took the old Hubble Space Telescope to produce similar work. Here are a couple of recent images I find particularly remarkable.
S1 LMC N79 – Dorado
Honestly, this image is just beautiful to look at. It’s even more breathtaking when you consider that this is just one cloud within this star-forming region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which itself is an irregular galaxy located about 163,000 light-years from Earth. If you live in the Southern Hemisphere and find yourself a suitably dark place, you can gaze up and see this whole other galaxy as a milky blotch in the night sky.
You can read more about this image here.
A gravitationally lensed supernova in MRG-M0138 – Cetus
It's pretty wild seeing the immense force of gravity contained within these galactic clusters warp distant points of light in these visually striking ways. Each arc is a galaxy far beyond the cluster itself that allow us to peer further back in time. Sometimes these warped images mirror themselves on the complete opposite side of the cluster, like ripples on a pond. In the case of this distant supernova, the light emanating from that cataclysmic event is being reflected in such a way that it's reappearing further down the length of the arc, making it seem as though there are two supernovae happening when in fact they are the same.
You can read more about this image here.
#astronomy #jameswebbspacetelescope #starcluster #stellarnursery #molecularcloud #largemagellaniccloud #supernova #gravitationallensing #galaxies
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The #LargeMagellanicCloud's ∼30 Kiloparsec #BowShock and its Impact on the #CircumgalacticMedium: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10963 -> ASTRONOMERS FIND 100,000-LIGHT-YEAR BOW SHOCK IN THE MILKY WAY’S OUTSKIRTS: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/astronomers-find-100000-light-year-bow-shock-in-the-milky-ways-outskirts/
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This goes well beyond what was expected from ALMA: for the first time, astronomers have been able to observe a disc around a young star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy. It’s the first time such a disc has ever been found outside our galaxy, and is identical to those forming planets in our Milky Way.
#ALMA #ALMAObservatory #RadioAstronomy #ExtragalacticAstronomy #ProtoplanetaryDisks #LMC #LargeMagellanicCloud
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Image 2
One of the most visually stunning images #Hubble has captured. This is the giant nebula #NGC2014 and its neighbor #NGC2020, part of a star-forming region in the #LargeMagellanicCloud—a satellite galaxy of the #MilkyWay, about 163,000 light-years distant.
Thread: 3/x
#SpaceMastodon #Spacedon #Space #AstronomyMastodon #Astrodon #Astronomy #ScienceMastodon #Sciencedon #Science #HubbleSpaceTelescope #HST #SpaceTelescopes #Nebulae #Galaxies #Stars #Hubble33
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@mustapipa It may be that this cluster was formed in an HII region / Ambarzumian association similar to the Tarantula Nebula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_Nebula#NGC_2070 . Many 'irregular' galaxies have such regions, possibly formed by the destabilizing effect of tidal forces. Lots of hot blue stars that burn out quickly to become supernovas.
#LargeMagellanicCloud #TarantulaNebula #ViktorAmbarzumian #HIIRegion #OBAssociation
