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Magellanic Cloud
Both the Small and the Large Magellanic Clouds can be seen with the naked eye on a clear dark night.

We view the Tarantula Nebula near the Large Magellanic Cloud, the reddish region at 10 o'clock, 170 000 light years away. 

Early Stone age man was running around then!

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