The N 70 nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)

by: ESO/Novapix
Reference: a-neb80-70001
Date: 2006-08-26

Three-colour composite of the N 70 nebula. It is a "Super Bubble" in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way system, located in the southern sky at a distance of about 160,000 light-years. This photo is based on CCD frames obtained with the FORS2 instrument on VLT in the morning of November 5, 1999.N 70 is a luminous bubble of interstellar gas, measuring about 300 light-years in diameter. It was created by winds from hot, massive stars and supernova explosions and the interior is filled with tenuous, hot expanding gas.

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