ESO’s Vista Telescope clicks neighbouring dwarf galaxy in new light | Technology News, The Indian Express

ESO’s Vista Telescope clicks neighbouring dwarf galaxy in new light | Technology News, The Indian Express

By Tech Desk |New Delhi |Published: September 18, 2019 2:10:38 pm

ESO’s Vista Telescope clicks neighbouring dwarf galaxy in new light

European Southern Observatory's (ESO) VISTA telescope revealed a new brighter image of the neighbouring dwarf galaxy called Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

The VISTA telescope from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) captured this new image of the nearby dwarf galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). (Image source: ESO/VISTA VMC)

We have always known that the universe is vast. Despite this vastness, we do have neighbours not only in terms of planets, moons and stars but also in terms of galaxies. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) happens to be one of our nearest galactic neighbours that is around 163,000 lightyears away from the Earth. Along with the Small Magellanic Cloud, the LMC is the nearest dwarf satellite galaxies to our Milky Way.