NGC 1903/1910/1916 in LMC
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A view into the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. Numerous deep sky objects are visible: The bright open cluster NGC 1903 in the upper right contains very luminous young blue stars. Immediately to the right of it is also a fainter less condensed cluster of older reddish stars.
In the lower right is the globular cluster NGC 1916, consisting mainly of very old red supergiant stars. This cluster is in a separate orbit around the Milky Way and is not a part of the LMC but happens to lie in the same field of view. In the left center of the image is a large grouping of bright blue stars, the open cluster NGC 1910. This cluster is surrounded by a nebula, barely visible as a faint magenta glow around the lower parts of the cluster. In images with longer exposure the nebula shows up as a large S shaped hydrogen cloud, glowing red against the numerous stars of the LMC. The many stars scattered around the field all belong to the LMC, and are located 170,000 ly away in the southern constellation Doradus. | |||||||||||||||
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