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Bookmark or Share- Magellanic Clouds - WikipediaThe 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.
- APOD: 2021 January 5 - The Small Cloud of MagellanThe Small Magellanic Cloud actually spans 15,000 light-years or so and contains several hundred million stars. About 210,000 light-years away in the constellation of the Tucan , it is more distant than other known Milky Way satellite galaxies, including the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- 101 Must-See Cosmic Objects: Small Magellanic CloudLike its companion, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a remarkable spectacle enjoyed by Southern Hemisphere astronomers. It is visible to the unaided...
- Small Magellanic Cloud: The Milky Way's Small Neighbor | SpaceA diffuse fog in the southern sky, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of our Milky Way galaxy's closest neighbors. Because it cannot be seen from most of North America, northern Africa,...
- Small Magellanic Cloud - WikipediaThe Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way. Classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy, the SMC has a D 25 isophotal diameter of about 5.78 kiloparsecs (18,900 light-years), and contains several hundred million stars. It has a total mass of approximately 7 billion solar masses.
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