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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 ]
The Large Magellanic Cloud lies partially within Mensa's boundaries, [44] although most of it lies in neighbouring Dorado. [9] It is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located at a distance of 163,000 light-years. [ 45 ]
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 ...
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 ...
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]
1.7 Zm – 179,000 light-years – distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud, largest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way <1.9 Zm – <200,000 light-years – revised estimated diameter of the disc of the Milky Way Galaxy. The size was previously thought to be half of this. 2.0 Zm – 210,000 light-years – distance to the Small Magellanic Cloud
Large Magellanic Cloud: 9.96 kiloparsecs (32,500 light-years) [143] ... About 300,000 years after the Big Bang, atoms of hydrogen and helium began to form, ...