There is a lot going on in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This is a quick fiddle with the results of an overnight imaging session. The big bright thing on the right is the tarantula nebula.
Because the Moon is still bright, I used a hydrogen / oxygen filter. Red is hydrogen, blue is oxygen.
The round thing towards the bottom is a superbubble. It formed when massive stars in the cluster at its center exploded all around thr same time and their shockwaves merged to clean out a relatively empty pocked in the gas cloud in which is is embedded. It is about 300 light years across (the whole lot is about 160,000 light years away)
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