Large Magellanic Cloud
The nearest and largest of the many galaxies that orbit the Milky Way. It is 160,000 light-years away.
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Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way system, appearing to the unaided eye as a large nebulous patch situated in the constellation of Dorado. From mid-southern latitudes the LMC is circumpolar.
Large Magellanic Cloud -- LMC, the larger of two small galaxies orbiting nearby our Milky Way galaxy, which are visible from the southern hemisphere.
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LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is an irregular-shaped galaxy in the Local Group. The irregular shape may be the result of a disturbance, perhaps a collision of two galaxies.
Large Magellanic Cloud, Local Group, Milky Way Galaxy
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Large Magellanic Cloud: a dwarf irregular satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
Small Magellanic Cloud: a dwarf irregular satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
NGC 6822: a dwarf irregular galaxy in the Local Group.
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This is the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest large neighbor galaxy.
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The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has been caught red-handed as the perpetrator of a stellar crime involving the theft of hundreds of stars from the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), ...
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are the two satellite galaxies of the Milky Way Galaxy, the vast star system of which the Earth is a minor component.
The Large Magellanic Cloud is an irregular dwarf galaxy neighbouring our own, the Milky Way. It is approximately 170,000 light-years away and appears as a faint cloud on the border between the constellations Dorado and Mensa.
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a miniature galaxy about 200,000 light years away, a satellite of the Milky Way. It has perhaps a tenth of the mass of our own Milky Way Galaxy, with roughly 10,000 million stars (or ten billion if you wish).
The Large Magellanic Cloud was host galaxy to a Supernova (SN 1987A), the brightest observed in over three centuries.
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*Eric Chaisson and Steve McMillan, Astronomy Today, (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1993), p. 550.
The Large Magellanic Cloud rotates in a fairly regular manner. The best measurements come from young supergiants and from planetary nebulae as well as from neutral hydrogen.
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, contains a giant H II region called the Tarantula Nebula.
(The Large Magellanic Cloud is approximately 170,000 light years from us, which is an enormous distance in human terms, but really just the local neighborhood on the scale of the universe.
Part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, at a distance of 165,000 light years, before and after the explosion of the supernova SN1987A in February 1987.
Figure: The Large Magellanic Cloud
An entirely different sort of candidate is provided by some previously unknown massive elementary particle. Such things go by the name of Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP).
964 - Al Sufi, a Persian astronomer makes the first preserved recording of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan observes the Magellanic Clouds during his circumnavigating expedition, ...
Successive generations of starbirth in the star-forming region, N11B in the Large Magellanic Cloud. "A collection of blue- and white-coloured stars near the left of the image are among the most massive stars known anywhere in the universe.
For example, the Large Magellanic Cloud is now thought to be about 10 percent farther away than had previously been estimated. Likewise, the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy has been increased by about a third; its distance is now pegged at 0.
The larger of the two, known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), is located mostly in the constellation Dorado; its angular diameter measures approximately 7°.
The most popular object in this contellation is the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the two companions of our galaxy. It is a galaxy of its own, irregularly shaped, containing about 10.
In any case it had been about 400 years since the last nearby supernova until the year 1987 when a supernova was seen in the nearby (50,000 pc) Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This supernova became known as 1987A.
Another possible example is that 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud was a blue supergiant before it went off. It may be that if the 1987A precursor were Pop I instead of Pop II, it would have been a red supergiant at the end of its life.
N49, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small companion galaxy to the Milky Way, exploded about 5,000 years ago as seen from Earth. Today, it consists of a crushed stellar remnant known as a neutron star and a rapidly expanding cloud of hot gas.
One of the best candidates is LMC X-3 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Here the x-ray source is associated with a main sequence B3 star whose shape has been severely distorted by the gravitational field of its companion.
It is best found by looking for the Large Magellanic Cloud in the adjoining constellation of Dorado.
The closer of the two, the Large Magellanic Cloud, extends about 8 degrees on the sky, while the more distant Small Magellanic Cloud extends about 3 degrees on the sky. These galaxies are small, irregular galaxies.
Once the distance to the lensing star was known, and since the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud, where the background star is located, is also known, astronomers could calculate the only remaining unknown in the equation for microlensing, ...
Dorado's main claim to fame is that it contains most of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small neighbour galaxy of our own Milky Way, about 170,000 light years away; this, like the Small Magellanic Cloud in Tucana, ...
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24, 1987, was found located in a companion galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This supernova, which exhibits some unusual traits, is now the object of intense astronomical scrutiny.
Known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), the galaxies are in the Local Group. The closer LMC is 168,000 light-years from Earth. Both galaxies can be observed with the naked eye in the southern night sky.
Mensa: Between the Large Magellanic Cloud and the South Celestial Pole.
Octans: Surrounds the South Celestial Pole off center toward Pavo.
Volans: Between Carina and the South Celestial Pole; northwest of Mensa.
If you were to look up all of the distances to even nearby galaxies (like Andromeda or the Large Magellanic Cloud), you'd see a range of values, not just one single value.
The most recent supernova visible by naked eyes was the SN1987A, which is located in a small nearby galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Unfortunately, the Large Magellanic Cloud is near the south celestial pole and is not visible in Hong Kong.
The Tarantula Nebula is an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It was originally thought to be a star, but in 1751 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille recognized its nebular nature....
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[25] Al-Sufi also identified the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is visible from Yemen, though not from Isfahan; it was not seen by Europeans until Magellan's voyage in the 16th century.
Magellanic Clouds Two nearby small irregular galaxies about 160,000 light years (Large Magellanic Cloud), and 200,000 light years (Small Magellanic Cloud) distant, visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere ...
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is near the constellation Dorado, and is 163,000 light-years away. The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is near the constellation Tucana, and is under 200,000 light-years away.
Dorado contains part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, an irregular galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is near the Dorado, and is 163,000 away. The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is near the constellation Tucana, and is under 200,000 light-years away. These two clouds are satellites of our .
It lies in the northeastern part (06:10:14.47-74:45:10.96, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Mensa, the Table Mountain -- west of Zeta Volantis, southwest of Gamma2 Volantis, and south of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Info: None of the stars is particularly bright, but a small part of the Large Magellanic Cloud reaches into the constellation.
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The constellation we now call simply Volans is southwest of Carina and east of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
They are called the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud. The nearest large galaxy is the Andromeda Galaxy. It is a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way but is 4 times as massive and is 2 million light years away.
The most notable event of this type was observed (quite extensively) in 1987 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy neighboring ours (see image above; the inner cloud is the one produced in the explosion, the rings seem older).
A few galaxies were been photographed from sounding rockets, the Large Magellanic Cloud was imaged from the lunar surface by Apollo 16, and a few dozen galaxies were observed by the Astro missions.
By the end of 1999 only a handful of these sources had been identified, in our galaxy and in the Large Magellanic Cloud. They are associated with supernova remnants and are thus apparently some kind of young neutron star.
 See also: Magellanic Cloud, Galaxy, Light, Star, Galaxies
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