NGC 6946 - Fireworks Galaxy

Time Traveler ⏳

Colonel Carmen Robles from the Zapatista army. She was an Afromexican hero of the Mexican Revolution. The photograph could be taken in 1910 or 1915.

The Large Magellanic Cloud

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is nearly 200,000 light years from earth. The picture above shows how it consists of vast clouds of dust and gas most likely from old stars going supernova. It is a stellar nursery for stars, similar to a nebula.

Close to this is the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and it is largely believed that their irregular shape is due to a collision that occurred between them thousands of years ago.

A prominent feature of the LMC is the Tarantula nebula (which the James Webb telescope recently took a high res photo of).

Sadly, those in the Northern Hemisphere never get the chance to see the LMC - it is only visible in the Southern Hemisphere!

Sturgeon Full Moon l Erik Contreras

Kowloon: The Walled City