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This nebula is in the LMC, not our own Milky Way Galaxy. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a satellite galaxy of irregular shape. It's located in the southern hemisphere sky in the constellation Dorado and is visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy diffuse glow. Distance to the LMC (and thus to the nebula N44C) is about 179,000 light years.

Did you know that astronomers have discovered a total of ELEVEN satellite galaxies (most of them dim dwarfs) orbiting the Milky Way Galaxy?

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1 posted on 05/13/2002 9:46:00 PM PDT by petuniasevan
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2 posted on 05/13/2002 9:47:28 PM PDT by petuniasevan
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4 posted on 05/13/2002 10:47:12 PM PDT by Djarum
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8 posted on 05/14/2002 1:33:58 PM PDT by foolish-one
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9 posted on 05/14/2002 3:09:22 PM PDT by fnord
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