| Magellanic Cloud | has definition Two relatively small, nebulous stellar systems visible only in the southern hemisphere; the larger is, however, the brightest "nebular" object in the sky. both are members of the local group of galaxies, and in fact seem to be associated, though detached, parts of the milky way system. |  |
| has definition The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two nearest and largest of the galaxies that orbit the milky way. The Magellanic Clouds lie in the southern sky and cannot be seen from the United States. | |
| has definition Two galaxies that lie close to the milky way galaxy. They are visible in the southern skies of Earth. | |
| has definition 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. | |
| is a kind of satellite galaxy | |
| is a kind of irregular galaxy | |
| is a kind of naked eye object | |
| satellite galaxy | orbits | |
| galaxy | has number of stars 106 to 1012 | |
| has catalog galaxy catalog | |
| physical object | has location or center of gravity | |
| has angular momentum | |
| has mass | |
| has velocity | |
| has momentum | |
| has temperature | |
| has volume | |
| has extent | |
| has material | |
| celestial body | has spectra | |
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(14 facts) (LMC) - The nearest and largest of the many galaxies that orbit the Milky Way. It is 160000 light-years away.