Historic astronomy bombshell: NASA telescope captures image of Large Magellanic Cloud

Technological advances do not leave the study of space exempt. Thanks to the possibilities offered by evolution, devices such as telescopes are improved as never before, and research opens doors to new forms of study that until now were unsuspected

Recently, NASA has promulgated one of these news that is historic as it entails something hitherto unknown. An image from NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a bright, cloudy landscape of one of the galaxies neighboring the Milky Way.

This galaxy referred to by NASA is none other than the Large Magellanic Cloud, located 160,000 light-years away in the constellations of Dorado and Mensa. Although it is considered a "dwarf" galaxy, it is the largest of the many satellite galaxies of the Milky Way.

How was this image of the Large Magellanic Cloud taken?

Thanks to the Hubble Telescope, one of NASA's most famous and important projects, through its Wide Field Camera 3, which incorporates various filters that allow specific wavelengths or colors of light to through, some of which are undetectable to the human eye.

That is to say, the waves can be manipulated to allow the age of some, but not others, so that by using five different filters and then combining them, they formed a large image of colors, which are not known to be exactly faithful, since it is the telescope that is responsible for granting them according to each of the filters that are assigned. The researchers have described the images as "brightly colored cotton candy".

This technique allows us to see details that are invisible to us, such as hot structures, active star-forming regions, or clouds of gas and dust.