The above mosaic combines 300,000 individual pointings to create a composite 1,000-times sharper than any previous LMC image.
Visible are vast clouds of gas and dust, showing in graphic detail that dust prefers regions near young stars (red-tinted bright clouds), scattered unevenly between the stars (green-tinted clouds), and in shells around old stars (small red dots).
Also visible are huge caverns cleared away by the energetic outflows of massive former stars.
The faint blue (false-color) glow across the bottom is the combined light from the old stars in the central bar of the LMC.
