File:Large Magellanic Cloud ESA393134.png
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English: The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the nearest galaxies to our Milky Way, as viewed by ESA’s Gaia satellite using information from the mission’s second data release.
This view is not a photograph but has been compiled by mapping the total amount of radiation detected by Gaia in each pixel, combined with measurements of the radiation taken through different filters on the spacecraft to generate colour information. The image is dominated by the brightest, most massive stars, which greatly outshine their fainter, lower-mass counterparts. In this view, the bar of the LMC is outlined in great detail, along with individual regions of star formation like the giant 30 Doradus, visible just above the centre of the galaxy. Acknowledgement: Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC); A. Moitinho / A. F. Silva / M. Barros / C. Barata, University of Lisbon, Portugal; H. Savietto, Fork Research, Portugal. |
| Date | |
| Source | http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/04/Large_Magellanic_Cloud |
| Author | European Space Agency |
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ESA/Gaia/DPAC,CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO |
| Title | Large Magellanic Cloud |
| Mission | Gaia |
| Activity | Space Science |
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| current | 14:03, 3 April 2019 | | 4,000 × 4,000 (23.24 MB) | Fæ | European Space Agency, Id 393134, http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/04/Large_Magellanic_Cloud, User:Fæ/Project_list/ESA |
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