Small Magellanic Cloud
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The Large and Small Magellanic clouds are actually satellite galaxies of our own Milky Way Galaxy and members of the local group, located at distances of about 55 and 65 kilo parsecs, ...
Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) Satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way system, appearing to the unaided eye as a nebulous patch in the constellation of Tucana. From mid-southern latitudes the SMC is circumpolar.
SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD - Smaller of the two irregular galaxies that make up the Magellanic Clouds. These two galaxies orbit the Milky Way once every 1,500 million years, and each other once every 900 million years.
Small Magellanic Cloud
SMC: The second largest, and the second nearest, of the galaxies that orbit the Milky Way. It lies in the southern sky, 190,000 light-years away.
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Small Magellanic Cloud: a dwarf irregular satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
NGC 6822: a dwarf irregular galaxy in the Local Group.
IC 5152: a dwarf irregular galaxy in the Local Group.
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The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is an irregular-shaped in the . The irregular shape may be the result of a disturbance, perhaps a collision of two galaxies.
The Small Magellanic Cloud is a companion to the Large Magellanic Cloud, in Dorado. These Magellanic Clouds are actually neighbours of our own Milky Way Galaxy.They are so named because they were first noted by Ferdinand Magellan in 1519.
In the Small Magellanic Cloud there is a nebula that looks like the head of a T-Rex eating stars. Look in the amazing Photos link below.
Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
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SMC -- Small Magellanic Cloud, the smaller of two small galaxies orbiting nearby our Milky Way galaxy, which are visible from the southern hemisphere.
SMD -- Science Mission Directorate, NASA (previously Office Of Space Science, OSS).
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) are small well-known Milky Way companions, but nearer to our Galaxy are the more recently discovered Canis Major Dwarf and Sag DEG (Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy).
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are not globular clusters; they are irregular galaxies, and in fact they have globular clusters of their own. Similarly, the Andromeda Galaxy is not our nearest galactic neighbor.
Figure: The Small Magellanic Cloud is an irregular galaxy that is a member of the local group of galaxies. Another irregular local group member is the Large Magellanic Cloud. These galaxies are visible only in the southern hemisphere.
Tucana contains the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small irregular galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.
Tucana is known for the "Small Magellanic Cloud," a small nearby galaxy that lies only 200,000 light years away, and for the magnificent globular cluster 47 Tuc, both of which far overshadow the constellation's luminary, ...
As independently evolving galaxies, the Large and the Small Magellanic Clouds are being gradually enriched with heavy elements.
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The three most prominent galaxies in our sky are visible to the naked eye: the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds of the Southern Hemisphere, and the Andromeda galaxy of the Northern Hemisphere.
In 1912 the astronomer Henrietta Leavitt (see Fig. 1) observed 20 Cepheid variable stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC).
It is currently merging with the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, a process that will be completed in about 100 million years. In 2003 a previously unknown galaxy was found to be colliding with the Milky Way.
It has a close companion, the Small Magellanic Cloud. The Magellanic Stream is a peculiar streamer of neutral hydrogen gas connecting these two small galaxies.
It is worth mentioning that the two irregular galaxies that are best known are the LMC and SMC (Large and Small Magellanic Clouds). These are not visible from Iowa, but only from fairly far south of the equator.
In January 2006, researchers reported that the heretofore unexplained warp in the disk of the Milky Way has now been mapped and found to be a ripple or vibration set up by the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds as they circle the Galaxy, ...
At the northern edge of the Small Magellanic Cloud lies the globular cluster NGC 362. It is not part of the galaxy but a foreground object (about 40000 lightyears distant to us). It is of 6th mag and can be observed with binoculars.
Our nearest neighbors, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, are easy to see from the southern hemisphere. However, one of the most beautiful galaxies we can see with the naked eye is visible in the night sky all this month (November).
The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy with several hundred million member stars, lies in the southern corner of the constellation. It is approximately 7,000 light-years in diameter and one of the closest neighbours to the Milky Way.
The Milky Way's satellite system consists of Sag DEG, Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud, Canis Major Dwarf, Ursa Minor Dwarf, Draco Dwarf, Carina Dwarf, Sextans Dwarf, Sculptor Dwarf, Fornax Dwarf, Leo I, Leo II, Tucana Dwarf, ...
Hubble Finds Infants in Small Magellanic Cloud
(Added 01/17/05) Hubble astronomers have uncovered, for the first time, a population of infant stars in the Milky Way satellite galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC, ...
They are both bright (12 magnitude) compact open clusters located in the Small Magellanic Cloud spanning a distance of 65 light years across and located 200,000 light years in distance from the Blue Planet in the Constellation Tucana.
A relatively small galaxy. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, visible in the Southern Hemisphere, are two dwarf irregular galaxies that are neighbors of the Milky Way.
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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, ...
The picture is centered on the south celestial pole and extends back to -74 degrees (a portion of the Small Magellanic Cloud visible at the top).
If you live south of the Equator, you may be able to see two irregular type galaxies in your night sky. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are two very nearby irregular galaxies which are orbitting the Milky Way.
The Local Group also includes Fornax, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, M32, M33, M101, and 9 dwarf spheroidal galaxies. The center of the Local Group is roughly between the and the Andromeda Galaxy, M31.
Irregular galaxies: They have irregular shape. The two irregular galaxies Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud are two satellite galaxies of ours. They are visible by naked eyes, but not visible from Hong Kong.
Info: This constellation contains the Small Magellanic Cloud.
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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 ...
Our Milky Way Galaxy is accompanied by the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, which are both irregular galaxies visible from the southern hemisphere. The Andromeda Galaxy has two small companion elliptical galaxies, M32 and M110.
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.
The constellation has no classical mythology, it was created to honor the colorful tropical bird encountered by European sailors. The constellation is located near the Small Magellanic Cloud, ...
Related images (other sources -- see under 'Related Images' on the pages below)
AAT 76. NGC 104, the globular cluster 47 Tucanae
AAT 122. The globular cluster NGC 362 in Tucana
UKS 17. The Small Magellanic Cloud and 47 Tucanae ...
dust began to condense into our local group of galaxies. Continued fragmentation would have produced increasingly smaller assemblies, finally spawning individual galaxies such as our Milky Way and its neighbors, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
 See also: Magellanic Cloud, Galaxy, Galaxies, Light, Milky Way
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