They also switched on WFPC2 at the same time, in order to obtain the image presented here. The Hubble Heritage Team later combined the WFPC2 images, taken through different color filters, in order to create the color picture shown here. The range of star colors visible in the WFPC2 image reveals the variety of stellar surface temperatures. The image is 1.6 arcminutes wide. At the distance of the LMC this corresponds to a width of 130 light years.
North is up, East is to the left of the image.
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