#largemagellaniccloud — Public Fediverse posts

A giant star is changing before our eyes and astronomers are watching in real time

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://interaksyon.philstar.com/trends-spotlights/2026/02/06/308870/a-giant-star-is-changing-before-our-eyes-and-astronomers-are-watching-in-real-time/

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

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

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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✧ 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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_Nebula

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

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.

https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-releases/astronomers-discover-disc-around-star-in-another-galaxy-for-the-first-time/

#ALMA #ALMAObservatory #RadioAstronomy #ExtragalacticAstronomy #ProtoplanetaryDisks #LMC #LargeMagellanicCloud

@Toniwastronomy Oh I know it's the 3rd largest, it's just that it is only ~5x the size of the #LargeMagellanicCloud, and some of the newest research shows the LMC may be way more massive than we thought, so maybe the #LMC is not a dwarf galaxy any more if this update gets verified?