# SMC - Noirlab2030b

- By: Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/SMASH/D. Nidever (Montana State University)
- Date: 1 December 2020
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2030b/
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SMC_-_Noirlab2030b.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/SMC_-_Noirlab2030b.jpg/1920px-SMC_-_Noirlab2030b.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Deepest, widest view of the Small Magellanic Cloud from SMASH

Part of the SMASH dataset showing what is arguably the best wide-angle view of the Small Magellanic Cloud to date. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are the largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way and, unlike the rest of the satellite galaxies, are still actively forming stars — and at a rapid pace.

Credit:

CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/SMASH/D. Nidever (Montana State University)

Acknowledgment: Image processing: Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin