Large and Small Magellanic Clouds shine in southern skies
WEBOct 3, 2023 · Bottom line: The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are two of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. They can be seen without optical aid from southern skies. In September 2023,...
Take a closer look at the Large Magellanic Cloud - Astronomy …
WEBMar 4, 2022 · The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is the southern sky’s greatest celestial wonder. It is the Milky Way’s biggest satellite galaxy, just 160,000 light-years distant, and the fourth-largest...
Large Magellanic Cloud - Wikipedia
WEBBased on the D 25 isophote at the B-band (445 nm wavelength of light), the Large Magellanic Cloud is about 9.86 kiloparsecs (32,200 light-years) across. [1][4] It is roughly one-hundredth the mass of the Milky Way [11] and is the fourth-largest galaxy in the Local Group, after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way, and the Triangulum Galaxy ...
Why astronomers keep staring at the same spot in the sky
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas...
Meet the Magellanic Clouds: Our galaxy’s brightest satellites
WEBNov 20, 2020 · The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) — a pair of dwarf galaxy companions to the Milky Way — had, of course, been observed by countless people before. But it still felt surreal to...
Clouds, Large and Small, of the Southern Sky - Sky & Telescope
WEBJan 15, 2024 · Easily visible from dark locations as two foggy expanses, they’re a bit harder for light-polluted city dwellers to discern. Each is a small galaxy near our own Milky Way, with the Large Magellanic Cloud around 160,000 light-years away and the Small Magellanic Cloud about 200,000 light-years distant.
Large Magellanic Cloud - Constellation Guide
WEBFeb 3, 2024 · The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a Magellanic spiral galaxy located 163,000 light-years away. It is the brightest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and one of the nearest galaxies to our own. It stretches across 10 degrees of the apparent sky away in the southern constellations Dorado and Mensa.
Gaia's view of Large Magellanic Cloud | Today's Image - EarthSky
WEBDec 16, 2017 · The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the nearest galaxies to our Milky Way galaxy. It’s located around 166,000 light-years away and visible to the naked eye at intermediate and...
Magellanic Clouds - Wikipedia
WEBThe Large Magellanic Cloud and its neighbour and relative, the Small Magellanic Cloud, are conspicuous objects in the southern hemisphere, looking like separated pieces of the Milky Way to the naked eye. Roughly 21 ° apart in the night sky, the true distance between them is roughly 75,000 light-years.
Large Magellanic Cloud - NASA
WEBJan 23, 2013 · Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it slowly collapse to form new stars.