Cosmic Exploration · galaxy
Large Magellanic Cloud
Irregular · 163 thousand ly
- Vz (km/s)
- 230.1
- Motion
- Bound orbit
- Morphology
- Irregular
- Mass
- 2.7845999999999997e+41
- Transverse velocity (km/s)
- 314
- Type
- Galaxy
- Vy (km/s)
- -232.4
- Dec (deg)
- -69.75611
- Distance from Earth
- 163000
- Diameter (ly)
- 32200
- Radial velocity (km/s)
- 64
- RA (deg)
- 80.89417
- Vx (km/s)
- -40.4
- Subgroup
- Milky Way
- Coordinates
- 05h 23m 34.6s −69° 45′ 22.0″ · NAME LMC via Sc
Notes
The largest satellite, visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere as a detached piece of the Milky Way. It hosts the Tarantula Nebula, the most active star-forming region in the Local Group, and produced SN 1987A.
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