Under the 'Wing' of the Small Magellanic Cloud Wall Art t-shirt 5 million light-years away and

5 million light-years away and looks like a faint spindle

This wide-field view of the Orion Nebula (Messier 42)

several times the diameter of the full Moon

as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space telescope

Under the 'Wing' of the Small Magellanic Cloud Wall Art t-shirt 5 million light-years away andThe tip of the "wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this 2013 view from NASA's Great Observatories. The Small Magellanic Cloud, or SMC, is a small galaxy about 200,000 light years way that orbits our own Milky Way spiral galaxy. The colors represent wavelengths of light across a broad spectrum. X rays from NASA's Chandra X ray Observatory are shown in purple; visible light from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is colored red, green