 Gaia continues its work, creating a three-dimensional map of billions of stars with unprecedented positional and radial velocity measurements. A full data release is due in 2018. This past year, Gaia released 14 months worth of data on the large Magellanic cloud, one of the nearest galaxies to our Milky Way. This image is based on stellar density. This shows the large-scale distribution of stars in the LMC, clearly delineating the full extent of the spiral arms. It is peppered with bright dots, each representing a faint cluster of stars. This image is based on total luminosity. It is dominated by the brightest, most massive stars, which greatly outshine their fainter, lower mass counterparts. In this view, the bar of the LMC is outlined in greater detail, alongside individual regions of star formation, like the bubbling tarantula nebula. Here are a few views in visible light, from ground-based telescopes.