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The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way. [5] Classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy , the SMC has a D 25 isophotal diameter of about 5.78 kiloparsecs (18,900 light-years), [ 1 ] [ 3 ] and contains several hundred million stars. [ 5 ]
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is around 163 kly distant and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) ... Star system Median distance
[11] [12] In the 1756 star map of the French astronomer Lacaille, they are designated as le Grand Nuage and le Petit Nuage ("the Large Cloud" and "the Small Cloud"). [ 13 ] [ 14 ] John Herschel studied the Magellanic Clouds from South Africa, writing an 1847 report detailing 919 objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud and 244 objects in the Small ...
Large Magellanic Cloud: antiquity–1994: 0.163 Mly This is the upper bound, as it is the nearest galaxy observable with the naked eye. [citation needed] Small Magellanic Cloud: 1913–1914: 0.197 Mly This was the first intergalactic distance measured. In 1913, Ejnar Hertzsprung measures the distance to SMC using Cepheid variables. In 1914, he ...
(Located in Small Magellanic Cloud) Open cluster: Tucana: 00 h 51 m 14.1 s: −73° 09′ 42″ 12.1 291: Barred spiral galaxy: Cetus: 00 h 53 m 29.8 s: −08° 46′ 04″ 14 292: Small Magellanic Cloud Irregular galaxy: Tucana: 00 h 52 m 38.0 s: −72° 48′ 01″ 2.8 293: Spiral galaxy: Cetus: 00 h 54 m 16.0 s: −07° 14′ 09″ 14 294 ...
NGC 290 is an open cluster of stars in the southern constellation of Tucana.This cluster was discovered September 5, 1826, by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. [7] It lies some 200,000 light years away from the Sun in the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy.
NGC 602c is a looser grouping 11 arc-minutes to the NE, which includes the WO star AB8. [9] NGC 602 includes many young O and B stars and young stellar objects, with few evolved stars. [10] Ionisation in the nebula is dominated by Sk 183, an extremely hot O3 main sequence star visible as the bright isolated star at the centre of the Hubble ...
In addition, the Sd class contains some galaxies from Hubble’s Sc class. Galaxies in the classes Sm and Im are termed the “Magellanic” spirals and irregulars, respectively, after the Magellanic Clouds. The Large Magellanic Cloud is of type SBm, while the Small Magellanic Cloud is an irregular (Im).