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AKARI's Far-infrared view of the Large Magellanic Cloud
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- Title AKARI's Far-infrared view of the Large Magellanic Cloud
- Released 01/11/2006 11:19 am
- Copyright JAXA
- Description
This false-colour view of the Large Magellanic Cloud is a composite of images taken by AKARI at far-infrared wavelengths (60, 90 and 140 microns). The Large Magellanic Cloud is a neighbour galaxy to the Milky Way.
Interstellar clouds in which new stars are forming are distributed over the entire galaxy. The bright region in the bottom-left is known as the 'Tarantula Nebula' and is a very productive factory of stars.
This figure is a part of a data set covering a sky portion of about 17 000 by 17 000 light-years.
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- Activity Space Science
- Mission AKARI
- Keywords Astronomy targets , Astronomy targets , Astronomy targets , Galaxies , Magellanic Clouds
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