Regions

This magnificent Large Magellanic Cloud image required a total of 1,060 hours of exposure time in both broadband and narrowband filters. It reveals the presence of hydrogen (red), oxygen (blue), and sulphur (yellow). Credit & Copyright: Team Ciel Austral – J. C. Canonne, N. Outters, P. Bernhard, D. Chaplain, L. Bourgon

LMC 1

RA: 05 00 Dec: -65 40 Size: ~2500 ly

LMC 1, in the northwest corner of the Cloud, offers us a modest exploration – simply the vast and gorgeous star cloud LH 15 with a few small clusters lying among its glittering stars.

LMC 2

RA: 05 44 Dec: -69 20 Size: ~3400 ly

LMC 2, lying to the southeast of the ferocious 30 Doradus, is the most spectacular supergiant shell with its massive ridge of active star formation regions on its western edge.

LMC 3

RA: 05 30 Dec: -69 00 Size: ~3200 ly

LMC 3, located to the northwest of the Tarantula Nebula, is massive and imposing yet it conveys a graceful sense of grandeur, and is filled with fascinating objects.

LMC 4

RA: 05 32 Dec: -66 40 Size: ~6000 ly

LMC 4 is congested with such a multitude of complex and intricate superbubbles, star clouds, star-forming complexes, bubbles and SNRs that it staggers the imagination.

LMC 5

RA: 05 22 Dec: -66 00 Size: ~2600 ly

LMC 5 is the only SGS that contains no OB association. It does, however, contain the superbly bright supernova remnant N49, the first extragalactic SNR ever discovered.

LMC 6

RA: 04 59 Dec: -68 36 Size: ~1900 ly

LMC 6 is curiously empty, but it makes up for it by hosting one of the prettiest complexes in the Cloud – N91 – along with a SNR whose nickname honours a famous nose.

LMC 7

RA: 04 53 Dec: -69 35 Size: ~2600 ly

LMC 7 contains an absolutely gorgeous star cloud, along with a fascinating star-forming complex – the “new” N79 – that has been called “a future rival to 30 Doradus”.

LMC 8

RA: 05 03 Dec: -70 30 Size: ~2900 ly

LMC 8 is utterly charming with its two enormous star clouds resplendent with stars and delicate clusters, along with a boomerang-shaped OB association, and a light dusting of nebulosity.

LMC 9

RA: 05 25 Dec: -71 05 Size: ~2900 ly

LMC 9 is a very old shell and its collection of OB associations and their related H II regions, including an elegant superbubble, are situated in a vast and intriguing semicircle.