NASA Image of the Day · September 8, 2026
Superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Where it is in your sky
- Object
- Large Magellanic Cloud · Galaxy
- Constellation
- Dorado
- Best seen
- Evenings from October to February; highest at midnight in December
- Climbs above 20°
- From the South Pole to the equator
- Never rises
- North of 20° N
- What you need
- Naked eye, from a dark site
Tonight from your location
From the source
N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of stars of different ages. One of its most distinctive features, however, is the dark, starry gap called a “superbubble,” visible in this Hubble Space Telescope image in the upper central region.
From NASA Image of the Day.
