Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... No single exposure can easily capture faint stars along with the subtle colors of the Moon. ... The mosaic digitally stitches together fifteen carefully exposed high resolution images of a bright, gibbous Moon and a representative background star field. ... The Large Magellanic Cloud in Infrared . ... The large pink structure looming to the upper right is part of N76, a large star forming region in our neighboring Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) galaxy. ...