The story for kids
This is the Large Magellanic Cloud, a little galaxy that goes around our Milky Way. Inside it there's a pink nebula, where lots of new stars are born.
Facts
- A small galaxy that goes around our Milky Way.
- It can only be seen from the southern half of Earth, like a piece of cloud torn off the sky.
- It holds the Tarantula Nebula, one of the biggest star “nurseries”.
- It is named after the explorer Magellan, whose sailors described it.
Numbers
- Type
- Irregular
- Distance
- ~160,000 light-years
- Stars
- ~30 billion