Wednesday, September 23, 2026

The (SMC) Small Magellanic Cloud (Galaxy), NGC292, 200,000 Light Years Distant and 7000 Light Years Across in the Southern Hemisphere Sky Circumpolar to the South Celestial Pole

 The most striking features are the two blue reflection nebulae near the bottom left of the image, NGC346 and NGC371, 1149 and 444 light years across respectively.  Mid left and left bottom NGC361 and NGC416, seemingly smaller and insignificant visually in comparison but still with true scales of  91 and 71 light years across respectively.  Below also is an annotated image so you can know perhaps better what all that's about.




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