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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.
NGC 602 is a young, bright open cluster of stars located in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. It was discovered on 1 August 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. [6] It is embedded in a nebula known as N90.
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.
Small Magellanic Cloud in fiction (7 P) S. Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (6 P) Pages in category "Small Magellanic Cloud" The following 32 pages are in this ...
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 ...
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.
Galaxy morphological types and objects that are members of the Small Magellanic Cloud are identified using the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. [3] The other data of these tables are from the SIMBAD Astronomical Database [ 4 ] unless otherwise stated.