All-sky view of the Magellanic Stream (radio/visible-light)

This image shows a long ribbon of gas called the Magellanic Stream, which stretches nearly halfway around the Milky Way.

In this combined radio and visible-light image, the gaseous stream is shown in pink. The radio observations are taken from the Leiden/Argentine/Bonn (LAB) Survey. The Milky Way is the light blue band in the centre of the image. The brown clumps are interstellar dust clouds in our galaxy. The Magellanic Clouds, satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, are the white regions at the bottom right.