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Shell Game in the LMC
The Large Magellanic Cloud, our Milky Way's largest satellite galaxy, glows in the southern sky. This image uses narrow-band filters to show the light from ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms. These elements, energized by young, massive stars, form shell-shaped clouds of gas. The colors are assigned to specific elements: red for sulfur, green for hydrogen, and blue for oxygen.
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In tropical astrology, 29 DEC 2016 falls under Capricorn (♑). The sign's window runs from 12-22 through 01-19. Capricorn is the dimmest zodiac constellation, but rich in deep-sky objects south of the celestial equator. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 29 DEC 2016.