Cosmic Exploration · galaxy
Small Magellanic Cloud
Irregular · 200 thousand ly
- Vz (km/s)
- 137.6
- Motion
- Bound orbit
- Morphology
- Irregular
- Mass
- 1.3923e+40
- Transverse velocity (km/s)
- 217
- Type
- Galaxy
- Vy (km/s)
- -156.7
- Dec (deg)
- -72.80028
- Distance from Earth
- 200000
- Diameter (ly)
- 18900
- Radial velocity (km/s)
- 7
- RA (deg)
- 13.15833
- Vx (km/s)
- 4.5
- Subgroup
- Milky Way
- Coordinates
- 00h 52m 38.0s −72° 48′ 01.0″ · NAME SMC via Sc
Notes
The LMC's smaller companion, being torn apart by it: the Magellanic Stream of gas trailing both clouds is the evidence. Henrietta Leavitt found the Cepheid period–luminosity law in its stars.
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