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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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The Large Magellanic Cloud, located about 160,000 light-years from Earth, is an ideal environment for studying how stars form in conditions resembling those of the early universe.

From Science Daily Nov. 12, 2025

The last nearby supernova was in 1987 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's satellites.

From Science Daily Nov. 21, 2024

For this study, Chiti and his colleagues aimed their telescopes at an unusual target: the stars that make up the Large Magellanic Cloud.

From Science Daily Mar. 20, 2024

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a bright swath of stars visible to the naked eye in the Southern Hemisphere.

From Science Daily Mar. 20, 2024

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

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

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