Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Visible predominantly from Earth's Southern Hemisphere , the LMC is the second closest galaxy , neighbor to the Small Magellanic Cloud , and one of eleven known dwarf galaxies that orbit our Milky Way Galaxy. The LMC is an irregular galaxy composed of a bar of older red stars, clouds of younger blue stars, and a bright red star forming region visible near the top of the above image called the Tarantula Nebula . The brightest supernova of modern times, SN1987A , occurred in the LMC .
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