HubbleSite NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Establishes Accurate New Distance Measurement To Neighboring...

[Space Telescope Science]

Recent observations of the remnants of Supernova 1987A, conducted with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have provided an unexpected bonus - an accurate determination of the absolute distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located in the southern hemisphere.

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