Cosmic Angel

Open this window to the universe and take a peek inside. What do you see? Do you see stars, nebulae, and galaxies? Maybe you see astronauts, aliens, and angels? Or maybe when you carefully study the depths of this image, can you find them all? Creating this image required the collection of photons that have traveled toward our earth for 160,000 years. This image was shot with a widefield to be able to include the many beautiful nebulae located deep within our galactic neighbor. This “next-door neighbor” is a companion, or in other words a satellite galaxy, of our own Milky Way Galaxy. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), is called a "cloud,” even though it is actually a dwarf galaxy orb...View all