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The Large Magellan Cloud is really one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies.
It is ca. 180,000 lightyears away, & shown here with overlapping nebulas N159 & Tarantula.
Reminder:ONE lightyear is nearly SIX trillion miles - that is a "6" with 12 zeros
(NASA AstroPic Archive), 28. Jan. 2017)
Image adapted from:
NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" - January 28, 2017
AstroPic Description
Posted by NASA, ESA, Hubble Space Telescope

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