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The Small Magellanic Cloud

by

C.Picking/Novapix

Reference

a-gax90-00008

Date

2007-02-12

The Small Magellanic Cloud is an irregular galaxy located at about 240,000 light years distance from Earth in the constellation Tucanae, and is one of the closest galaxy of the milky way. The globular cluster 47 Tucanae appears in the upper part of the image.