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This lovely area of the Large Magellanic Cloud contains a collection of colourful nebulae and hot young blue open star clusters. NGC2004 is the rich cluster to the lower left, the cluster emerging from it's red nebula to the upper left is NGC2014. Next to NGC2014 is the pretty smoke ring of NGC2020. Dominating the right of centre is the nebula complex containing patches labelled (from left to right) NGC2029, 2032, 2035 and 2040. Lots of other clusters and a few nebulae are scattered across the view, with just about all the stars in the LMC rather than in our galaxy (our stars are mainly the ones with diffraction spikes). There's even a distant galaxy hiding amongst the stars to the upper-right of NGC2004 - a round elliptical, 50 million light-years away behind the LMC!
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All images copyright Andy Casely 2017