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Small Magellanic Cloud & Magellanic Bridge The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is an irregular dwarf galaxy, which is located ~200000 light years away. The SMC is thought to have once been a barred spiral galaxy but it has been disrupted and shaped by interactions with it’s neighbours, the Large M...

Large Magellanic Cloud: The Spiders Web Located in the southern constellation Dorado lies the largest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). It spans about 15,000 lights years in width and lies a mere 160,000 light years away. Covering a height of ~9 degrees or the equ...

The Runaway Star of SH2-27 https://www.astrobin.com/39tu57/B/ Copyright: Mathew Ludgate SHO_IR_master_4000.jpg SH2-27 is an extremely large ionisation nebula in Ophiucus, which spans 13 degrees or 26 full moons across the sky. SH2-27 is ionised by Zeta Ophiuchi (Zeta Oph), which is a massive super-...