Ejnar Hertzsprung was a Danish chemist and astronomer. He is best remembered for his role in developing the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram of stars.
Hertzsprung in 1961
Hertzsprung (right) and Karl Schwarzschild in front of the Göttingen Observatory building (1909)
The Small Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way. Classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy, the SMC has a D25 isophotal diameter of about 5.78 kiloparsecs, and contains several hundred mi
The Small Magellanic Cloud (Source: Digitized Sky Survey 2)
Panoramic Large and Small Magellanic Clouds as seen from ESO's VLT observation site. The galaxies are on the left side of the image.
VISTA's view of the Small Magellanic Cloud. 47 Tucanae (NGC 104) is visible to the right of the Small Magellanic Cloud.