Stars of many types and colors are visible in this Hubble Space Telescope vista [ http://heritage.sts…] of the Large Magellanic Cloud [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] (LMC). Over 10,000 stars [ http://www2.stx.com…] are visible -- the brightest of which are giant stars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Were our Sun [ http://www.seds.org…] 170,000 light-years distant and among these stars [ http://sciastro.ast…], it would hardly be discernable [ http://heritage.sts…]. By contrast, only a few thousand stars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] are individually visible at night with the unaided eye, and many of these lie within only a few hundred light-years. Typically, the light we see from nearby stars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] left during the age of our great-grand-parents, while light from LMC stars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] started its journey before the dawn of recorded [ http://news.bbc.co.…] human history.
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Stars of many types and colors are visible in this Hubble Space Telescope vista [ http://heritage.sts…] of the Large Magellanic Cloud [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] (LMC). Over 10,000 stars [ http://www2.stx.com…] are visible -- the brightest of which are giant stars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Were our Sun [ http://www.seds.org…] 170,000 light-years distant and among these stars [ http://sciastro.ast…], it would hardly be discernable [ http://heritage.sts…]. By contrast, only a few thousand stars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] are individually visible at night with the unaided eye, and many of these lie within only a few hundred light-years. Typically, the light we see from nearby stars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] left during the age of our great-grand-parents, while light from LMC stars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] started its journey before the dawn of recorded [ http://news.bbc.co.…] human history.
