Galaxy
A satellite galaxy of the Milky Way visible to the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere.
| Type | Galaxy |
|---|---|
| Galaxy type | Irregular |
| Distance from Earth | 163,000 ly |
| Diameter | 304,246,000,000,000,000 km |
| Mass | 1.99 × 10^40 kg |
| Apparent magnitude | 0.13 |
| Redshift | 0.00093 |
| Hemisphere | Southern |
| Discovered | 964 |
At 304,246,000,000,000,000 km across, Large Magellanic Cloud is 23,877,413,278,920 times the diameter of Earth.
Its mass is 10,000,000,000 times the mass of the Sun.
The light reaching us from Large Magellanic Cloud tonight left it around 163,000 years ago.
Of the 12 galaxys these pages cover, only 1 lie closer to us.
Its light arrives redshifted by z = 0.00093, stretched on the way here by the universe's expansion.
It has been on record since the year 964.
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