Galaxy
A dwarf galaxy visible to the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere, gravitationally linked to its larger neighbor, the LMC.
| Type | Galaxy |
|---|---|
| Galaxy type | Irregular |
| Distance from Earth | 200,000 ly |
| Diameter | 178,351,000,000,000,000 km |
| Mass | 7.00 × 10^39 kg |
| Apparent magnitude | 2.7 |
| Redshift | 0.000527 |
| Hemisphere | Southern |
| Discovered | 964 |
At 178,351,000,000,000,000 km across, Small Magellanic Cloud is 13,997,096,217,234 times the diameter of Earth.
Its mass is 3,519,356,461 times the mass of the Sun.
The light reaching us from Small Magellanic Cloud tonight left it around 200,000 years ago.
Of the 12 galaxys these pages cover, only 2 lie closer to us.
Its light arrives redshifted by z = 0.000527, stretched on the way here by the universe's expansion.
It has been on record since the year 964.
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