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Massive Stars Shine in This Ultraviolet View From Hubble


Just outside the Milky Way Galaxy, roughly 210,000 light-years from Earth, there is the dwarf galaxy known as the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Measuring about 18,900 light-years in diameter and containing roughly 3 billion stars, the SMC and its counterpart - the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - orbit the Milky Way as satellite galaxies.

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