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Large Magellanic Cloud comparison table

Subject	has declination	has right ascension	has distance from galaxy center	is part of	is a kind of	has acronym	is an instance of	has diameter	has mass	has magnitude	has image	has definition	has NED data	orbit
Magellanic Cloud					naked eye object							Two small irregular (or possibly barred spiral) galaxies (satellites of the Milky Way galaxy) about 50-60 kpc (LMC, in Dorado) and 60-70 kpc (SMC, in Toucana) distant, visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere. Both clouds contain mainly Population I stars. The LMC contains numerous ob stars and at least 10 stars that are an order of magnitude brighter (mv = - 9) than any supergiants known in our galaxy. It also contains several times our galaxy's concentration of interstellar matter.
Large Magellanic Cloud	-69d45m22s	05h23m34.5s	50 kpc	Local Group		LMC	Magellanic Cloud	645 × 550 arcminutes	10 billion solar masses	0.9		The nearest and largest of the many galaxies that orbit the Milky Way. It is 160000 light-years away.		Milky Way

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