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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 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 ...
This makes it feasible to use them as indicators of distance. Recently, they have been used to give direct distance estimates to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), Andromeda Galaxy and Triangulum Galaxy. Eclipsing binaries offer a direct method to gauge the distance to galaxies to a new improved 5% level of accuracy ...
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 ...
The cluster is located at a distance of around 200,000 light-years (60 ... "The stellar population of the Small Magellanic cloud near NGC 121. I. The mean metallicity ...
(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 ...