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                              2023 February 11
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                        Magellanic Clouds over Chile
          Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Felipe Mac Auliffe López

   Explanation: The two prominent clouds in this Chilean Atacama Desert
   [5]skyscape captured on January 21 actually [6]lie beyond our Milky Way
   galaxy. Known as [7]the Large and [8]the Small Magellanic Clouds they
   are so named for the 16th century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand
   Magellan, leader of the first circumnavigation of planet Earth.
   [9]Famous jewels of southern hemisphere skies, they are the brightest
   satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. The larger cloud is some 160,000
   light-years, and the smaller 210,000 light-years distant. While both
   are irregular dwarf galaxies in their own right, they exhibit central
   barred structures in the deep wide-angle view. Wide and deep exposures
   also reveal faint dusty [10]galactic cirrus nebulae and the imprints of
   gravitational tidal interactions [11]between the Large and Small
   Magellanic Clouds.

                   Tomorrow's picture: another cloudy day
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