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Back Planetary Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Planetary Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud


Date: 08 April 1992
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: LMC
Copyright: J.C. Blades/NASA/ESA

he NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has imaged N66, a planetary nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud (a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way galaxy). The image was obtained at 10:41 p.m. EDT on 26 June 1991, using the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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