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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 ]
Large Magellanic Cloud L/T eff: HD 269551 A 1,439 [110] Large Magellanic Cloud L/T eff: HV 12463 1,420 [110] Large Magellanic Cloud L/T eff: IRAS 05280–6910: 1,367 [111] Large Magellanic Cloud L/T eff: The most reddened object in the Large Magellanic Cloud. [109] MSX LMC 597 1,278 [112] –1,444 [109] Large Magellanic Cloud L/T eff: OGLE ...
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, as is another nearby galaxy called the Small Magellanic Cloud. Both are smaller than our galaxy and offer different galactic ...
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.
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. A dwarf galaxy is a small galaxy composed of about 1000 up to several billion stars, as compared to the Milky Way's 200–400 billion stars. [1]
The Magellanic Cloud galaxies were once classified as irregular galaxies. The Large Magellanic Cloud has since been re-classified as type SBm (barred Magellanic spiral). [13] The Small Magellanic Cloud remains classified as an irregular galaxy of type Im under current galaxy morphological classification, although it does contain a bar structure.
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. ... The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is around 163 kly distant and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) ...