Magellanic Clouds
Magellanic Clouds Two satellite galaxies of the
Milky Way, visible in skies around the South Pole as misty stellar concentrations. The Small Cloud (
Nubecula Minor), located in the constellation of Tucana, is irregular; the Large Cloud (
Nubecula Major), mostly in the constellation of Dorado, is vaguely spiral. Their distance is
c.150,000 light-years away. See also
galaxy
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MAGELLANIC CLOUDS ARE FIRST-TIME VISITORS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...look like glowing clouds to the unaided eye...galaxies. The Large Magellanic Cloud is located approximately...stars. The Small Magellanic Cloud is located around...velocities of the Magellanic Clouds through space with...
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Magellanic clouds are recent visitors to our Milky Way galaxy
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 9/18/2007; 694 words
; ...Center for Astrophysics have shown that the Magellanic Clouds are recent arrivals to our galactic neighbourhood. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are two of the Milky Way...
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Motion of two nearby galaxies clouds the picture.(ASTRONOMY)(Large and Small Magellanic Clouds )(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 10/20/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are not gravitationally...naked eye as bright clouds, the two galaxies...irregular. The Large Magellanic Cloud is about 160,000...diameter, while the Small Magellanic Cloud, one-200th...
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Honeycomb found in galaxy nearest us. (Large Magellanic Cloud contains mass of gas bubbles 30 light-years wide by 90 light-years long) (Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 11/21/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...galactic neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Researchers have had good reason...since 1604. Now, however, Magellanic Cloud watchers are abuzz with...stellar wind -- in the Large Magellanic Cloud and other galaxies many...
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Milky Way tightens reins on speeding Large Magellanic Cloud
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 8/18/2008; 516 words
; ...the Milky Way would be able to hold on to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), in spite of it speeding through space at...that our galaxy's brightest companion, the Large Magellanic Cloud, appeared to be speeding through space so fast that...
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NASA to conduct sounding rocket campaign in Australia. (National Aeronautics & Space Administration studies Large Magellanic Cloud)
Newspaper article from: Defense Daily; 10/24/1995; 579 words
; ...campaign in the Australian Outback to study the Large Magellanic Cloud, the galaxy closest to our own Milky Way. The campaign...Instrumented Range in South Australia, as the Large Magellanic Cloud can only be viewed from the Southern Hemisphere...
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Supernova yields cosmic yardstick. (distance between Earth and the Large Magellanic Cloud)
Magazine article from: Science News; 1/26/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...determination of the distance between Earth and the Large Magellanic Cloud, the galaxy containing the burned-out star. Astronomers...Cerro Tololo conclude that 1987A began ejecting its gas cloud at least 400,000 years before it went supernova...
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Supernova 1987A: astronomers' luck. (supernova discovered in Large Magellanic Cloud)
Magazine article from: Science News; 3/7/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...astronomerStanford Woosley of the University of California at Santa Cruz, speaking of the supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, officially named supernova 1987A (SN: 2/28/87, p.132). The flow of information from this, thenearest...
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Nearby supernova. (nearest known supernova discovered in Large Magellanic Cloud)
Magazine article from: Science News; 2/28/1987; 367 words
; ...Astronomers at the Cerro TololoInteramerican Observatory at La Serena, Chile, discovered a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud on the morning of Feb. 24. This is the nearest known supernova to us in almost 400 years and apparently the first...
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Nearby galaxy sheds light on dark matter. (Large Magellanic Cloud used to estimate amount of Milky Way's dark matter)
Magazine article from: Science News; 6/12/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...visible Milky Way, it would extend far beyond the Milky Way's nearest neighbor and satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). While astronomers had already derived similar estimates for the size and mass of dark matter in the Milky...
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Magellanic Clouds
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
Magellanic Clouds The two irregular galaxies...his voyage around the world. Both Clouds are believed to orbit our Galaxy...into the Galaxy. See also Large Magellanic Cloud ; Magellanic Stream ; Small Magellanic Cloud .
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Small Magellanic Cloud
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
Small Magellanic Cloud ( SMC ) The smaller of the two irregular...relatively more gas and less dust than the Large Magellanic Cloud ( LMC ), but fewer clusters and nebulae...neighbourhood of the Galaxy. See also magellanic clouds .
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Large Magellanic Cloud
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
Large Magellanic Cloud ( LMC ) The larger of the two irregular galaxies which accompany our own Galaxy; also known...gas and young stars. A blue supergiant star in the LMC exploded as Supernova 1987A . See also magellanic clouds .
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magellanic clouds
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
magellanic clouds, a popular name for the two nebiculae , or cloudy-looking areas in the southern sky, which comprise a great number of small stars much resembling the Milky Way. They were named after Ferdinand Magellan .
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Magellanic Stream
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
Magellanic Stream A thin trail of neutral hydrogen...for at least 110° from the Magellanic Clouds, passing near the south galactic pole...out in a close encounter between the Magellanic Clouds and our Galaxy about 200 million...
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