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Bookmark or Share- Meet the Magellanic Clouds: Our galaxy’s brightest satellitesThe Magellanic Clouds. Besides being spectacular nighttime objects, the Magellanic Clouds are popular targets for professional astronomers. In fact, they’ve been featured in more than...
- Large Magellanic Cloud - NASA ScienceApr 17, 2023. Editor. NASA Hubble Mission Team. Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it slowly collapse to form new stars.
- Large Magellanic Cloud - NASAImage Credit: ESA/NASA/Hubble. Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it slowly collapse to form new stars.
- A History of the Magellanic Clouds and How They Got Their NamesA History of the Magellanic Clouds and How They Got Their Names - Universe Today. Image of the night sky taken at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. The Large...
- Magellanic Clouds Galaxies | Facts, Information, History & DefinitionThe two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere are irregular dwarf galaxies caught in a slow gravitational dance with the Milky Way. Their brilliant light travelling the distance of about 200 000 light-years to reach the Earth makes them one of the most dazzling objects in the night sky.
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