The Large and Small Magellanic CloudsSmall and Large Magellanic Clouds over Paranal ObservatoryALMA antennae bathed in red light. In the background are the southern Milky Way on the left and the Magellanic Clouds at the top.[1]
The Magellanic Clouds (Magellanic system[2][3] or Nubeculae Magellani[4]) are two irregular dwarf galaxies in the southern celestial hemisphere. Orbiting the Milky Way galaxy, these satellite galaxies are members of the Local Group. Because both show signs of a bar structure, they are often reclassified as Magellanic spiral galaxies.
The two galaxies are the following:
Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), about 163 kly (50 kpc) away
Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), about 206 kly (63 kpc) away
The Magellanic clouds are visible to the unaided eye from the Southern Hemisphere, but cannot be observed from the most northern latitudes.
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The MagellanicClouds (Magellanic system or Nubeculae Magellani) are two irregular dwarf galaxies in the southern celestial hemisphere. Orbiting the Milky...
The Large MagellanicCloud (LMC) is a dwarf galaxy and satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs (163,000 light-years)...
The Small MagellanicCloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way. Classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy, the SMC has a D25 isophotal diameter of...
relation to the MagellanicClouds was established in 1974. In 1965, anomalous velocity gas clouds were found in the region of the MagellanicClouds. The gas...
galaxies. The Large MagellanicCloud has since been re-classified as type SBm (barred Magellanic spiral). The Small MagellanicCloud remains classified...
stars in the Milky Way. For example, some red supergiants in the MagellanicClouds are suspected to have slightly different limiting temperatures and...
in the MagellanicClouds - published 1956 (Astrophys. J. Suppl., 2, 315) MCELS (MagellanicCloud Emission-line Survey) The MagellanicClouds Photometric...
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MagellanicClouds (Russian: На краю Магеллановых облаков) is a fiction book, published in 1998. It includes three stories: "On the Edge of Magellanic...
and Small MagellanicClouds, through the Magellanic Stream. Direct accretion of gas is observed in high-velocity clouds like the Smith Cloud. Cosmological...
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SBm, SABm); the prototype galaxy and namesake for Magellanic spirals is the Large MagellanicCloud, an SBm galaxy. They are usually smaller dwarf galaxies...
The MagellanicCloud (Polish title: Obłok Magellana) is a 1955 science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. Fragments of the novel were published...
(September 1956). "Catalogues of Hα-emission Stars and Nebulae in the MagellanicClouds". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 2: 315. Bibcode:1956ApJS...
(IRAS 04553-6825) is an unusual red supergiant (RSG) star in the Large MagellanicCloud (LMC) satellite galaxy in the southern constellation of Dorado. It...
Ian B.; Grebel, Eva K. (October 2004). "The MagellanicClouds Photometric Survey: The Large MagellanicCloud Stellar Catalog and Extinction Map". The Astronomical...
Small MagellanicClouds, which have been observed since prehistory. Measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2006 suggest the MagellanicClouds may...
a possible part of the Local Group. Magellanic Stream, a stream of gas being stripped off the MagellanicClouds due to their interaction with the Milky...
variables after S Doradus, one of the brightest stars of the Large MagellanicCloud. They are considered to be rare. The LBV stars P Cygni and η Carinae...
R136 (formerly known as RMC 136 from the Radcliffe Observatory MagellanicClouds catalogue) is the central concentration of stars in the NGC 2070 star...
Henrietta Swan Leavitt after studying thousands of variable stars in the MagellanicClouds. The discovery establishes the true luminosity of a Cepheid by observing...
Harvey R.; Gunn, James E. (1955). "Studies of MagellanicClouds. I. Dimensions and structure of the Large Cloud". The Astronomical Journal. 160: 126–140....
few have well-established names, such as the Andromeda Galaxy, the MagellanicClouds, the Whirlpool Galaxy, and the Sombrero Galaxy. Astronomers work with...
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1088/0004-637x/808/2/139. S2CID 18471887. Williams, Matt (November 2016). "What are Magellanicclouds?". phys.org. Archived from the original on 21 August 2018. Smith,...
Ian B.; Grebel, Eva K. (October 2004). "The MagellanicClouds Photometric Survey: The Large MagellanicCloud Stellar Catalog and Extinction Map". The Astronomical...
expected total of over 6,000. Several thousand more are known in the MagellanicClouds, with more discovered in other galaxies; the Hubble Space Telescope...
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