The Carnival of the Animals (Le Carnaval des Animaux) is a humorous musical suite of fourteen movements by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
Many interesting carnival creatures can be seen in this cosmic bouquet in the Large Magellenic Cloud in Dorado.
N83 resembles an Arachnid, N81 is a Hermit Crab, NGC 1727 is a Baby Octopus, DEM L36 is a Bird of Prey. Cookie monster can be seen far right, and N185 is an upturned snail.
In this, the youngest part of the LMC complex, Testor & Lortet report the discovery of unevolved O stars in N83 and N84 noting the high degree of fragmentation of the ionized gas first suspected from nebular morphology and excitation. Maybe Colin or M&T can shed some understanding on this?
Rarely (if ever?) imaged in isolation, this remarkable collection of interesting nebulae are located East of the famous Tarantula Nebula NGD 2070.
Viewers with a keen eye will also see not less than a dozen tiny star clusters in this field.
Photographed from lockdown central, Melbourne, Australia.
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