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The Large Magellanic Cloud

LMC · dwarf galaxy · Common

The Large Magellanic Cloud

It is falling toward us, and will merge with us.

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The Small Magellanic Cloud
Observation status: Not observableNever climbs high enough in the sky: -21° at best, and the Live Telescope needs 20°.See this week’s vote

The real thing

Photograph
The Large Magellanic Cloud, photographed by Dark Energy Camera
CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/SMASH/D. Nidever (Montana State University). Image processing: Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin · CC BY 4.0

Record

LMC
Object
dwarf galaxy
Rarity
Common
RA
05:23:34.44
Dec
-69:45:21.96
DISTANCE
~160,000 ly
SIZE
~32,000 ly
STARS
~30 billion
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0 / 300
Direct price
$3
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