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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.
Diameter (ly) Millions of ... Satellite of Milky Way possibly associated with the Large Magellanic Cloud [15] 300 ... Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC, NGC 292) SB(s)m pec ...
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 ]
The term "The Local Group" was introduced by Edwin Hubble in Chapter VI of his 1936 book The Realm of the Nebulae. [11] There, he described it as "a typical small group of nebulae which is isolated in the general field" and delineated, by decreasing luminosity, its members to be M31, Milky Way, M33, Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud, M32, NGC 205, NGC 6822, NGC 185, IC 1613 and ...
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 ...
The Large Magellanic Cloud, for instance, has less dust than the Milky Way and a smaller content of what astronomers call metallic elements - those other than hydrogen and helium.
N119's location within the Large Magellanic Cloud. With a right ascension of 5 h 18 m 45 s and a declination of −69° 14′ 03″, [1] this nebula may be found in the constellation of Dorado about 160 kly (50 kpc) away. Its apparent size is roughly 9′ 14″ × 12′ 15″.
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 ...