大麦哲伦云

在南半球肉眼可见；SN 1987A 就在其中爆发。

图片挂在该距离处，朝向地球，大小与它在天空中一样；看不出天体有多深，所以它是平的。

拍摄者

数字化巡天

图片跨度

约 43,000 ly

距太阳

163,000 光年

赤经 / 赤纬

80.89° / -69.76°

来源

Digitized Sky Survey 2 (STScI/AURA, Palomar/Caltech, UKSTU/AAO), via CDS hips2fits

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a dwarf galaxy and satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs, the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal and the possible dwarf irregular galaxy called the Canis Major Overdensity.

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