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Big Magellanic Cloud from the skies of Cajón del Maipo
Fernando de Magallanes and his crew had more than enough time to study the southern skies during their famous trips around the world. As a result, two diffuse objects in the shape of a cloud, not visible to the inhabitants of the northern hemisphere, are now known as Las Nubes de Magallanes.
These clouds of stars are small irregular galaxies, satellites of our great
Milky Way galaxy.
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC, by its most common acronym in English), photographed
above, it is only about 180,000 light-years away - the only known galaxy closer is the Sagittarius Dwarf.
Both the LMC and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are linked to the Milky Way by a stream of cold hydrogen.
Author: Mario Poblete
Big Magellanic Cloud from the skies of Cajón del Maipo
Fernando de Magallanes and his crew had more than enough time to study the southern skies during their famous trips around the world. As a result, two diffuse objects in the shape of a cloud, not visible to the inhabitants of the northern hemisphere, are now known as Las Nubes de Magallanes.
These clouds of stars are small irregular galaxies, satellites of our great
Milky Way galaxy.
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC, by its most common acronym in English), photographed
above, it is only about 180,000 light-years away - the only known galaxy closer is the Sagittarius Dwarf.
Both the LMC and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are linked to the Milky Way by a stream of cold hydrogen.
Author: Mario Poblete