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Saturday, October 2, 2010

Small Magellanic Cloud

In this an infrared taken by the Spitzer Telescope, we see what is called a Magellanic Cloud. A Magellanic Cloud is comprised of a "bar" on the left and a "wing on the right. The bar contains both old stars (blue) and young stars in the glowing natal dust (shown in glue and green). This image also contain a galactic globular cluster (the blue cluster of stars in the lower right corner).


http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/uploaded_files/graphics/high_definition_graphics/0005/5873/ssc2010-02a_Ti.jpg?1272642570

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