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Large Magellanic Cloud

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noun

  1. a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way galaxy, appearing as a hazy cloud in the southern constellations Dorado and Mensa.


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A team from the University of Arizona found that the SMC's unusual behavior is the result of a direct collision with the Large Magellanic Cloud.

From Science Daily Mar. 20, 2026

"The detection of icy COMs in the Large Magellanic Cloud provides evidence that these reactions can produce them effectively in a much harsher environment than in the solar neighborhood."

From Science Daily Nov. 12, 2025

It had much, much less of the heavier elements in it than any other star yet seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

From Science Daily Mar. 20, 2024

However, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy 160 000 light-years away, the material from which new stars are being born is fundamentally different from that in the Milky Way.

From Science Daily Nov. 29, 2023

"I make it just a shade inside the outermost fringes of the Large Magellanic Cloud."

From The Women-Stealers of Thrayx by Holden, Fox B.

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