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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.
Satellite of Milky Way possibly associated with the Large Magellanic Cloud [15] 300 ly [15] 17 Boötes III: ... Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC, NGC 292) SB(s)m pec 0.205 ...
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 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 ...
Theoretical limit of star size (Small Magellanic Cloud) ≳1,050 [9] ... Small Magellanic Cloud L/T eff: A luminous blue variable and one of the most luminous stars.
Magellanic Stream: 600,000 ly (180,000 pc) [4] complex of HVCs: Connects the Large and Small Magellanic clouds; extends across 180° of the sky. Lyman-alpha blob 1: 300,000 ly (92,000 pc) [5] LαB: Largest blob in the LAB Giant Concentration [citation needed] Himiko Gas Cloud: 55,000 ly (17,000 pc) [6] Intergalactic cloud (possible LαB)
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 ...