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Small Magellanic Cloud

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Noun1.Small Magellanic Cloud - the smaller of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere
Magellanic Cloud - either of two small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way; visible near the south celestial pole


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3 (SNR 0104 for short), is in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way, and was found by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
To his surprise, he uncovered another one a little less than 230,000 light years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits our own Milky Way.
The Large Magellanic Cloud is about 160,000 light-years from the Milky Way and has about one-twentieth the Milky Way's diameter, while the Small Magellanic Cloud, one-200th the Milky Way's size, lies about 200,000 lightyears distant.
 
 
 
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