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A video from the Chandra website regarding the Large Magellanic Cloud date- 2nd April 08 source- http://chandra.harva rd.edu/resources/pod casts/sd.html
'The Large Magellanic Cloud, known as the LMC, is a nearby satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. At a distance of around 160,000 light-years, the LMC is the third closest galaxy to us. But the LMC is more than just a nice little sidekick.'
Thousands of Magellanic penguins in Punta Tombo, at the coast of Argentina's Patagonia, are breeding their eggs this time of year (early November), just before they hatch.
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MCELS is an astronomical survey of two of our nearest neighboring galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC). Credit: C. Smith and S. Points (CTIO)m the MCELS Team, and NOAO/AURA/NSF.
A zoom into the nebula NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud that reveals an underlying population of infant stars and other fine details captured by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys across the galaxy's starburst regions and gas clouds.
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So, I got to return to Punta Arenas for a few days at the end of December, but this time we drove out and visited with the Magellanic Penguins.
This is the first of 5 videos I've made from this recent trip.
Kermit is singing 'Rainbow Connection.'