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The Small Magellanic Cloud is an irregular galaxy that orbits our Milky Way as one of its satellite galaxies. It matters to astronomers because studying it helps us understand galaxy formation and evolution, as well as the structure and history of our own galactic neighborhood.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astrophysical X-ray source
- Has part
- NGC 330
- Named after
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Child body
- NGC 265
- Distance from Earth
- 62
- Radius
- 7000
- Image
- SMC - Noirlab2030b.jpg
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- Commons category
- Small Magellanic Cloud
- catalog code
- 3FGL J0059.0-7242e
- galaxy morphological type
- dIrr
- topic's main category
- Category:Small Magellanic Cloud
- time of discovery or invention
- 1521-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Ferdinand Magellan
- apparent magnitude
- 2.2
- absolute magnitude
- -16.2
- redshift
- 0.000527
- right ascension
- 13.15833
- declination
- -72.80028
- radial velocity
- 145.6
- epoch
- J2000.0
- metallicity
- -1.07
- short name
- MMO
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 0.772
- declination component of proper motion
- -1.117
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