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Large Magellanic Cloud  

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  • The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the two Magellanic Clouds – dwarf irregular galaxies – visible in the southern hemisphere, that orbit the Milky Way Galaxy; it spans 8° of the sky in Dorado and Mensa. The LMC is about 20,000 light-years (ly) in diameter, has a visible mass of about one-tenth that of our own galaxy, and, at a distance of some 180,000 ly, was long considered to be the nearest external galaxy before losing that distinction to the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical. It displays a noticeable bar of stars, some of which, including S Doradus, are extremely luminous; from the ends of the bar project a weak spiral structure. (Encyclopedia of Science, by David Darling, https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/L/LMC.html)

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  • LMC

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