When deep-sky observers contemplate the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the Milky Way’s largest satellite galaxy, they immediately think of the Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070). And no wonder — this emission nebula is the largest star-forming region in the local universe. But the LMC offers much more. Just 0.7° south of the Tarantula lies another impressiveContinue reading “N159: A star-forming nebula in the spider’s shadow”
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