A gathering of red, white and blue stars in the constellation of Dorado

Hubble Gazes at Stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the star cluster NGC 1854, a gathering of red, white and blue stars in the southern constellation of Dorado (The Dolphinfish). NGC 1854 is located about 135,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of our closest cosmic neighbors and a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

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Hubble Gazes at Stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud