Backup showing up on internal hard drive - MacBook Pro

I bought my first Mac ever a few days ago, and I am very pleased in spite of the slight learning curve! I have a MacBook Pro, 13 in, with Retina. I did a backup with Time Machine onto my external hard drive. Again, no problems. But, when I checked out system information and looked under storage, I saw 48 GB taken up by backup! What is that all about?  Is there a way to delete that and keep all backups on the external drive? Thanks!

That's a local snapshot
You can disable:
     Open Terminal (in Applications/Utilities)
     Enter: sudo tmutil disablelocal
Backups on the External Drive will not be affected.

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