Representation of the LMC using astrometric and photometric information from the Gaia DR3. This view is not a photograph since it has been compiled by mapping the total amount of radiation detected by Gaia in each pixel, combined with measurements of the radiation taken through different filters on the spacecraft to generate colour information. The MW contamination has been removed because the NN Complete sample of Jiménez-Arranz et al. (2023b) has been used. All types of stellar populations are shown. The cyan ring is centred on the supershell LMC 4 (α = 5^h32^m, −66^∘40^′, Book et al. 2008), with a diameter of 1400 pc (Dopita et al. 1985; Ou et al. 2024). The representation is done in the LMC in-plane (x^′, y^′) Cartesian coordinate system, as in Fig. 4. This represents a face-on view that is corrected for the viewing inclination.