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| Small Magellanic Cloud comparison table | |||||||||||||
| Subject | has declination | has right ascension | has distance from galaxy center | is part of | is a kind of | has acronym | is an instance of | has diameter | has mass | has magnitude | has definition | has NED data | orbit |
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| Magellanic Cloud | naked eye object | Two small irregular (or possibly barred spiral) galaxies (satellites of the Milky Way galaxy) about 50-60 kpc (LMC, in Dorado) and 60-70 kpc (SMC, in Toucana) distant, visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere. Both clouds contain mainly Population I stars. The LMC contains numerous ob stars and at least 10 stars that are an order of magnitude brighter (mv = - 9) than any supergiants known in our galaxy. It also contains several times our galaxy's concentration of interstellar matter. | |||||||||||
| Small Magellanic Cloud | -72d49m43s | 00h52m44.8s | 60 kpc | Local Group | SMC | Magellanic Cloud | 320 × 185 arcminutes | 1 billion solar masses | 2.7 | The second largest, and the second nearest, of the galaxies that orbit the Milky Way. It lies in the southern sky, 190000 light-years away. | Milky Way |
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