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- DictionaryMagellanic Clouds/ˌmadʒɪˈlanɪk/
- 1. two diffuse luminous patches in the southern sky, now known to be small irregular galaxies that are the closest to our own. The Large Magellanic Cloud is about 169,000 light years away and the Small Magellanic Cloud is about 210,000 light years.
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2 days ago · Astronomers have detected giant, magnetic stars outside the Milky Way for the first time. These infant stars in the Magellanic Clouds could reveal details of early stellar evolution.
1 day ago · It is now known that the nearest external galaxies are the Magellanic Clouds, two patchy irregular objects visible in the skies of the Southern Hemisphere. For years, most experts who regarded the Magellanic Clouds as portions of the Milky Way Galaxy system separated from the main stream could not study them because of their position.
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4 days ago · Credit: NASA, ESA, A. James (STScI) For the first time, magnetic fields have been detected in three massive, hot stars in our neighboring galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. While ...
3 days ago · NGC346 is the most massive star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud whose low metal content provides insight into conditions earlier in the universe's evolution. Magnetic fields have been ...
3 days ago · Located 12.5 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs, NGC 4449 has much in common with our very own Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the satellite galaxy ...
4 days ago · Zoom into the James Webb Space Telescope's view of a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud known as NGC 346. Credit: Space.com | ESA/Webb, NASA, ESA, CSA, ESO, ESA/Hubble, Digitized ...
4 days ago · Designated VFTS 243, the system was discovered in 2022 and resides in the Tarantula Nebula, which is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud; it contains a 25-solar-mass star and a 10-solar-mass...
