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NOIRLab image of the week
The Small Magellanic Cloud from Cerro Pachón
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2615a/
#NOIRLab #SmallMagellanicCloud #Astronomy #Astrodon #Cerropachon
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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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Chandra and Webb, powerful space telescopes, captured a breathtaking image of NGC 602, a cosmic wreath. Webb’s data reveals the wreath’s ring-like outline, while Chandra’s X-ray images illuminate it with the light of young, massive stars.
NGC 602, located on the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, is about 200,000 light-years away.#SpaceTelescopes #NGC602 #ChandraXray #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #SmallMagellanicCloud #MilkyWay #Astronomy #GoodNews
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/chandra-and-webb-spy-a-cosmic-wreath/ -
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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Some mind-blowing, and stunning work in a new pre-print! 👀👀👀👀
If you go to a dark enough sky, you will, with your eyes, notice two bright clouds in the southern sky. These are the Magellanic Clouds (Large and Small) and they are the closest galaxies to our Milky Way (our Galaxy is trying to eat them up). They are only 160,000 - 200,000 light years from us.
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) has been a bit of a mystery in that astronomers have debated its shape.
Now, a new study - using Australia's radio interferometer ASKAP - has taken a real close look at the SMC, and found it might actually be not one - BUT TWO galactic systems lying along the line of sight.
Huge!
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07750
HT John Wu (Bluesky)
📸 ESO/S. Brunier