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The Small Magellanic Cloud

SMC · dwarf galaxy · Common

The Small Magellanic Cloud

About 200,000 light-years away.

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The Large Magellanic Cloud
Observation status: Not observableNever climbs high enough in the sky: -25° at best, and the Live Telescope needs 20°.See this week’s vote

The real thing

Photograph
The Small 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

SMC (NGC 292)
Object
dwarf galaxy
Rarity
Common
RA
00:52:38.28
Dec
-72:49:42.96
DISTANCE
~200,000 ly
SIZE
~7,000 ly
BESIDE IT
47 Tucanae
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0 / 300
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