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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 ]
[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 ...
NGC 346 is a young [4] open cluster of stars with associated nebula located in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) that appears in the southern constellation of Tucana.It was discovered August 1, 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop.
The compiler of the New General Catalogue, Danish astronomer John Louis Emil Dreyer, described this object as "pretty bright, pretty small, little extended, very gradually brighter middle". [6] The cluster is located at a distance of around 200,000 light-years (60 kpc ) from the Sun. [ 1 ]
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 ...
NGC 265 is an open cluster of stars in the southern constellation of Tucana.It is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, [4] a nearby dwarf galaxy.The cluster was discovered by English astronomer John Herschel on April 11, 1834.
(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.