Monogram Starry Wingtip von Small Magellanic Cloud Skateboard

Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series: The tip of the wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this new view from NASA's Great Observatories. The Small Magellanic Cloud, or SMC, is a small galaxy about 200,000 light-years way that orbits our own Milky Way spiral galaxy. Colors represent wavelengths of light across a broad spectrum. Also, X-Rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory are shown in purple; vis-light from NASA's Hubble Telescope Telescope is colored red, green and blue; and infrared observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope represented in red. Die Spiral-Hinter-Rad-Seen in der Lower corner is actually d this nebula. Other distant galaxies located hundreds of millions of light-years or more away can seen sprinkled around the edge of the image. The SMC is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors. Even though it is a small, or so-called dwarf galaxy, the SMC is so bright that it is vis to the unaided eye from the Southern Hemisphere and near the equator. Many navigators, including Ferdinand Magellan who lends his name to the SMC, used it to help find their way across the oceans. Bild credit: NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/STScI