After reading another thread about the LMC,
I did a further little reading and was surprised to find the reference in several places, that the Tarantula Nebula is within the LMC.
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Originally Posted by www.nasa.gov
The Tarantula Nebula is located in the neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, and is one of the largest star-forming regions located close to the Milky Way.
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Sorry for my ignorance, but I have been taught that anything referred to as a nebula lies within the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Since 1924, when Edwin Hubble announced that the Andromeda galaxy was not within our own Milky Way galaxy, astronomers began to separate the “nebulae” into two major groups. One group includes the galaxies like Andromeda that lie outside our Milky Way. There are many different shapes of galaxies, including spirals of various types, elliptical galaxies, and irregular galaxies. The other objects, that lie within the Milky Way are now the only objects called nebulae (singular: nebula).
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But now this seems to be saying that the Tarantula Nebula is actually within the neighbouring galaxy of the LMC. And is located 160,000 light years from us (same distance as is quoted as the distance to the LMC.)
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how can both statements be true.?
