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                                   2022 April 12   
      
                            N11: Star Clouds of the LMC   
                  Image Credit: NASA, ESA; Processing: Josh Lake   
      
      Explanation: Massive stars, abrasive winds, mountains of dust, and   
      energetic light sculpt one of the largest and most picturesque regions   
      of star formation in the Local Group of Galaxies. Known as N11, the   
      region is visible on the upper right of many images of its home galaxy,   
      the Milky Way neighbor known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The   
      featured image was taken for scientific purposes by the Hubble Space   
      Telescope and reprocessed for artistry. Although the section imaged   
      above is known as NGC 1763, the entire N11 emission nebula is second in   
      LMC size only to the Tarantula Nebula. Compact globules of dark dust   
      housing emerging young stars are also visible around the image. A   
      recent study of variable stars in the LMC with Hubble has helped to   
      recalibrate the distance scale of the observable universe, but resulted   
      in a slightly different scale than found using the pervasive cosmic   
      microwave background.   
      
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