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Showing posts with label Small Magellanic Cloud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Small Magellanic Cloud. Show all posts

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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