UV view of the nearest galaxies (IMAGE)

University of Toronto

UV view of the nearest galaxies

Caption

Surveys conducted by NASA's Swift-UVOT telescope provide the most detailed overviews ever captured in ultraviolet light of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two closest major galaxies to our own.  The researchers use this ultraviolet dataset to identify the candidate systems that they targeted for this paper.

Credit

NASA/Swift/S. Immler (Goddard) and M. Siegel (Penn State)

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