Large Magellanic Cloud

Capture

Canon EOS 60D

Date

19 March 2026

Location

Camden, NSW

Original

2298 × 1532 px

Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf irregular galaxy and satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It has an off-center bar running through the middle of it. At a distance of around 163,000 light-years. It is about 32,200 light-years across, and has roughly one-hundredth the mass of the Milky Way

See it in the miscellaneous gallery