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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 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.
Small Magellanic Cloud L/T eff: LMC 136404 974 [105] Large Magellanic Cloud L/T eff: SP77 46-32 973 [105] –1,133 [107] Large Magellanic Cloud HV 2084 967 [105] –1,083 [107] Small Magellanic Cloud WOH S74 965 [105] –1,014 [107] Large Magellanic Cloud L/T eff: SMC 10889 963 [105] Small Magellanic Cloud L/T eff: TRM 67 951 [105] Large ...
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 ...
(Located in Small Magellanic Cloud) Open cluster: Tucana: 01 h 14 m: −73° 16′ 14.2 457: Open cluster: Cassiopeia: 01 h 19 m 40 s +58° 17′ 7.0 458 (Located in Small Magellanic Cloud) Open cluster: Tucana: 01 h 14 m 53.4 s: −71° 32′ 59″ 11.9 459: Spiral galaxy: Pisces: 01 h 18 m 08.3 s +17° 33′ 44″ 15.7 460 (Located in Small ...
Small Magellanic Cloud: 3.5 × 10 19 meters 7,000 light years 7 × 10 19 meters Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy: 10 19 meters 10,000 light years 10 20 meters Large Magellanic Cloud: 7.5 × 10 19 meters 14,000 light years 1.4 × 10 20 meters NGC 3310 — 22,000 light years 2.2 × 10 20 meters NGC 7714: 3.5 × 10 20 meters — Triangulum: 5 × 10 20 ...
Astronomers have long hypothesized that as a protostar grows to a size ... Large Magellanic Cloud: 100 163,000 ... table below for the purpose of comparison ...