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MCELS Annotated Image of a Portion of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Ground-based image of the region surrounding NGC 2074 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. These optical emission-line images were taken on the Curtis Schmidt telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory as part of the Magellanic Cloud Emission Line Survey. The composite image...
- Date
- Jan 1, 2008
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2008-31-2400-image
Ground-based image of the region surrounding NGC 2074 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. These optical emission-line images were taken on the Curtis Schmidt telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory as part of the Magellanic Cloud Emission Line Survey. The composite image shows emission from oxygen (blue), hydrogen (green), and sulfur (red). The image is 38 arcminutes square.
Credits
Illustration: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI);Science: UM/CTIO MCELS Project/NOAO/AURA/NSF
Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Large Magellanic Cloud, LMC |
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