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The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a dwarf galaxy and satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. [7] At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs (163,000 light-years), [2] [8] [9] [10] the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal (c. 16 kiloparsecs (52,000 light-years) away) and the possible dwarf irregular galaxy called the Canis Major Overdensity.
The Large Magellanic Cloud was the host galaxy to a supernova , the brightest observed in over four centuries. Measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope, announced in 2006, suggest the Magellanic Clouds may be moving too fast to be long term companions of the Milky Way . [ 34 ]
Measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2006 suggest the Magellanic Clouds may be moving too fast to be orbiting the Milky Way. [3] Of the galaxies confirmed to be in orbit, the largest is the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy, which has a diameter of 2.6 kiloparsecs (8,500 ly) [4] or roughly a twentieth that of the Milky Way.
Large Magellanic Cloud L/T eff: HD 269551 A 1,439 [104] Large Magellanic Cloud L/T eff: HV 12463 1,420 [104] Large Magellanic Cloud L/T eff: IRAS 05280–6910: 1,367 [105] Large Magellanic Cloud L/T eff: The most reddened object in the Large Magellanic Cloud. [103] MSX LMC 597 1,278 [106] –1,444 [103] Large Magellanic Cloud L/T eff: OGLE ...
A large ring of cold gas that formed from a collision of two galaxies. [3] Magellanic Stream: 600,000 ly (180,000 pc) [4] complex of HVCs: Connects the Large and Small Magellanic clouds; extends across 180° of the sky. Lyman-alpha blob 1: 300,000 ly (92,000 pc) [5] LαB: Largest blob in the LAB Giant Concentration [citation needed] Himiko Gas ...
The largest of these is the Large Magellanic Cloud with a diameter of 32,200 light-years. [278] It has a close companion, the Small Magellanic Cloud . The Magellanic Stream is a stream of neutral hydrogen gas extending from these two small galaxies across 100° of the sky.
Listed below are galaxies with diameters greater than 700,000 light-years. This list uses the mean cosmological parameters of the Lambda-CDM model based on results from the 2015 Planck collaboration, where H 0 = 67.74 km/s/Mpc, Ω Λ = 0.6911, and Ω m = 0.3089. [3]
Large Magellanic Cloud: 100 163,000 B0Iae 10.55 28,200 SIMBAD [41] [42] Peony Star: WR 102ka in Peony Nebula: 100 26,000 Ofpe/WN9 12.978 J band : 25,100 spectroscopy ...