The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way. Classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy, the SMC has a D25 isophotal diameter of...
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The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a dwarf galaxy and satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs (163,000 light-years)...
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as Magellanic spiral galaxies. The two galaxies are the following: Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), about 163 kly (50 kpc) away Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC)...
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List of largest stars (section Magellanic Clouds)
L. M.; Richardson, N. D. (July 2017). "Wolf-Rayet stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud: II. Analysis of the binaries". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 591: A22...
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The Magellanic Stream is a stream of high-velocity clouds of gas extending from the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds over 100° through the Galactic south...
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prototype galaxy and namesake for Magellanic spirals is the Large Magellanic Cloud, an SBm galaxy. They are usually smaller dwarf galaxies and can be considered...
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Star Fleet Battles (section Small Magellanic Cloud)
which can rip enemy vessels apart. The Small Magellanic Cloud (referred to in-setting as the Lesser Magellanic Cloud) is composed of three main regions:...
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galaxies system comprises the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy, Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud, Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy (disputed, considered by some...
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Luminous blue variable (section Small Magellanic Cloud)
variables after S Doradus, one of the brightest stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The LBV stars P Cygni and η Carinae have been known as unusual variables...
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Leavitt's great insight was that while no one knew the distance to the Small Magellanic Cloud, all its stars must be roughly the same distance from Earth. Therefore...
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of the brightest globular clusters in the sky, and most of the Small Magellanic Cloud. Tucana is one of the twelve constellations established by the astronomer...
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Irregular galaxy (section Magellanic Clouds)
galaxies. The Large Magellanic Cloud has since been re-classified as type SBm (barred Magellanic spiral). The Small Magellanic Cloud remains classified...
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LMC". SEDS. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. "The Small Magellanic Cloud, SMC". SEDS. Archived from the original on 7 March 2015. "Messier...
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In 2014, it was discovered that the star HV 2112, located in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), was a strong candidate. Another possible candidate is the...
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(Radcliffe observatory Magellanic Cloud) numbers, frequently abbreviated to just R, for example R136a1. In the Small Magellanic Cloud SMC WR numbers are used...
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extinction curves are those of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In the LMC, there is significant variation...
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The Magellanic Bridge (MBR) is a stream of neutral hydrogen that links the two Magellanic Clouds, with a few known stars inside it. It should not be confused...
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close companion, the Small Magellanic Cloud. The Magellanic Stream is a stream of neutral hydrogen gas extending from these two small galaxies across 100°...
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Way Small Magellanic Cloud, a smaller major satellite galaxy to the Milky Way Mini Magellanic Cloud, a sub-satellite galaxy separating from the Small Magellanic...
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BAT99-98 (category Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud)
BAT99-98 is a Wolf–Rayet star located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, in NGC 2070 near the R136 cluster in the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus). At 226 M☉...
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Galaxy morphological types and objects that are members of the Small Magellanic Cloud are identified using the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. The other...
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Tralfamadore (category Small Magellanic Cloud in fiction)
1959 novel The Sirens of Titan, Tralfamadore is a planet in the Small Magellanic Cloud and the home of a civilization of machines, which dispatches Salo...
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and Small Magellanic Clouds, which have been observed since prehistory. Measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2006 suggest the Magellanic Clouds...
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HV 2112 (category Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud)
HV 2112 is a cool luminous variable star in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Until 2018, it was considered to be the most likely candidate for a Thorne–Żytkow...
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measures of diameter: major axis and minor axis. For example, the Small Magellanic Cloud has a visual apparent diameter of 5° 20′ × 3° 5′. Defect of illumination...
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"SPITZER SAGE-SMC INFRARED PHOTOMETRY OF MASSIVE STARS IN THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD". The Astronomical Journal. 140 (2): 416–429. arXiv:1004.0949. Bibcode:2010AJ...
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faint "clouds" in the Southern Sky. These are marked in astronomy books as the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (the LMC and the SMC). These "clouds" are...
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Have Space Suit—Will Travel (category Small Magellanic Cloud in fiction)
he, Peewee, and the Mother Thing travel to a planet in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud, to face an intergalactic tribunal, composed of many advanced species...
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1987A, which was the explosion of a blue supergiant star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Theoretical studies indicate...
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The Player of Games (category Small Magellanic Cloud in fiction)
spends the next two years travelling to the Empire of Azad in the Small Magellanic Cloud, where a complex game (also named Azad) is used to determine social...
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