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The Magellanic clouds with Milky Way

author: Minoru Yoneto/Novapix

reference: a-gax90-00010

Image Size 300 DPI: 21 * 32 cm

Milky Way with the Magellanic clouds, visible in southern hemisphere. the Small Magellanic cloud (to the left) is about 240,000  light-years away and the Large Magellanic cloud (to the right) about 160 000 light-years. These two irregular galaxies are members of our Local Group of galaxies.

Keywords for this photo:

ASTRONOMY - CONSTELLATION - CRUX - DWARF GALAXY - GALAXY - IRREGULAR GALAXY - LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD - LOCAL GROUP - MILKY WAY - NEBULA - NGC 292 - NGC 3372 - SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD - SOUTHERN CROSS - SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE - STAR -