Caption: The night sky with the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds (Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC)) which are small irregular galaxies in orbit around the Milky Way.
The image is from the site of Very Large Telescope (VLT), Paranal Observatory on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile
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ESO,
Yuri Beletsky,
2011
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2011) /
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