Magellanic Clouds
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Name (Hebrew)
ענני מגלן
Name (Latin)
Magellanic Clouds
Other forms of name
Clouds, Magellanic
Clouds of Magellan
Large Magellanic Cloud
Small Magellanic Cloud
See Also From tracing topical name
Dwarf galaxies
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Local Group (Astronomy)
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q50028
Library of congress:
sh 85079590
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Magellanic Clouds ― Irregular Dwarf Galaxies
ESO/S. Brunier, CC BY 4.0
File:A Starry Combination.jpg
ESO/J. Colosimo, CC BY 4.0
File:Artist’s impression of the Milky Way.jpg
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESO/R. Hurt, Public domain
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Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders, Public domain
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ESO, European Southern Observatory, CC BY 4.0
File:Large.mc.arp.750pix.jpg
NASA/Ames Research Center, Public domain
File:Magellanic Clouds ― Irregular Dwarf Galaxies.jpg
ESO/S. Brunier, CC BY 4.0
File:Red alert.jpg
ESO/C. Malin, CC BY 4.0
File:Solar system.jpg
NASA/JPL, Public domain
File:VISTA’s view of the Small Magellanic Cloud.jpg
ESO/VISTA VMC, CC BY 4.0
Wikipedia description:
The Magellanic Clouds (Magellanic system or Nubeculae Magellani) are two irregular dwarf galaxies in the southern celestial hemisphere. Orbiting the Milky Way galaxy, these satellite galaxies are members of the Local Group. Because both show signs of a bar structure, they are often reclassified as Magellanic spiral galaxies. The two galaxies are the following: Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), about 163 kly (50 kpc) away Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), about 206 kly (63 kpc) away The Magellanic clouds are visible to the unaided eye from the Southern Hemisphere, but cannot be observed from the most northern latitudes.
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