To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 100,000th orbit,
astronomers aimed the observatory at a firestorm of stellar activity in the
Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
MAGELLANIC FIRESTORM The Hubble Space Telescope captured this hotbed of star activity in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud.
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