Large Magellanic Cloud
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The Large Magellanic Cloud, located about 160,000 light-years from Earth, is an ideal environment for studying how stars form in conditions resembling those of the early universe.
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The last nearby supernova was in 1987 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's satellites.
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The newly imaged star, WOH G64, lies within the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the small galaxies that orbits the Milky Way.
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It had much, much less of the heavier elements in it than any other star yet seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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However, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy 160 000 light-years away, the material from which new stars are being born is fundamentally different from that in the Milky Way.
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