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Originally Posted by gregbradley
I agree, I like this one a lot. Lovely colour and all those little blue clumps of stars. Do you think they are globs?
I wonder if the LMC distorts arms of the Milky Way in a similar way?
Greg.
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It doesn't currently but it will in the future, the Sagitarrius Dwarf Galaxy has caused some minor disruption however. The blue clumps are bouts in intense star formation caused by the interaction between the LMC like object and the main galaxy.
Star formation gets very intense around galactic interactions.