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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 and its neighbour and relative, the Small Magellanic Cloud, are conspicuous objects in the southern hemisphere, looking like separated pieces of the Milky Way to the naked eye. Roughly 21° apart in the night sky, the true distance between them is roughly 75,000 light-years.
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.
A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km). ... The Large Magellanic Cloud is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, as is another nearby galaxy ...
NGC 1850 is a double cluster and a super star cluster in the Dorado constellation, located in the northwest part [3] of the bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud, [4] at a distance of 168 kly (51.5 kpc) from the Sun. [citation needed] It was discovered by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop in 1826.
It is around 160 to 165 thousand light year distance of the Large Magellanic Cloud and the loose grouping of stars is about 330 to 335 light years across. NGC 2001 is also listed as part of Lucke-Hodge stellar association 64, along with ANONb4 and e135.
The star, known as WOH G64, is 160,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small neighboring galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. Researchers took the picture using the European ...
At the immense distance to the LMC, the parallax method is beyond the limits of current technology. Most estimates assume that R136 is at the same distance as the Large Magellanic Cloud. The most accurate distance to the LMC is 49.97 kpc, derived from a comparison of the angular and linear dimensions of eclipsing binary stars. [3]