Small Magellanic Cloud
by Jim DeLillo
Title
Small Magellanic Cloud
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Jim DeLillo
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Photograph - Digital Photo
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Actual astrophotography.
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), or Nubecula Minor, is a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way.[5] Classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy, the SMC has a diameter of about 7,000 light-years,[3] contains several hundred million stars,[5] and has a total mass of approximately 7 billion solar masses.[6] The SMC contains a central bar structure, and astronomers speculate that it was once a barred spiral galaxy that was disrupted by the Milky Way to become somewhat irregular.[7] At a distance of about 200,000 light-years, the SMC is among the nearest intergalactic neighbors of the Milky Way and is one of the most distant objects visible to the naked eye. ~Wikipedia
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January 12th, 2021
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