Taken Under the Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud
The tip of the wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this new view from NASA Great Observatories. The SMC, is a small galaxy about 200,000 light-years way that orbits our own Milky Way spiral galaxy.
- Date
- 2013-04-03
- Photographer / author
- NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/STScI
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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