This picture of the 'seahorse of the Large Magellanic cloud was made Astronomy Picture of the Day on November 30, 2014. The 'seahorse' in the picture is a curious smoke pillar in the Large Magellanic cloud roughly 20 lightyears long. In the photo, newly-formed star cluster NGC 2074 can be seen right off the center of the seahorse. These newly-formed stars will actually erode the pillars over time.
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