Large Magellanic Cloud Image of a galaxy close to the Milky Way
is captured in Chile The exceptional skies of the north of Chile
made it possible to achieve a new milestone for world astronomy:
a mosaic of images of one of the galaxies that are part of the
so-called Local Group surrounding the Milky Way. Monday, June
07, 2010 From the north of Chile, an area known worldwide for
its excellent conditions for developing astronomy, experts of
the European Southern Observatory (ESO) were able to photograph
the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the galaxies closest to
the Milky Way. The photograph, corresponding to a mosaic of four
images taken by the Wide Field Imager installed on the 2.2-meter
MPG/ESO telescope installed at the La Silla Observatory, reveals
a large amount of globular clusters and brilliant supernova
explosions, produced in the Dorado constellation of the LMC,
located only 160,000 light years away from the Milky Way. This
is a small distance in cosmic terms and will make it possible to
study it