小麦哲伦云

通过一座由气体和恒星构成的桥与大麦哲伦云相连。

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 25,000 ly

距太阳

203,000 光年

赤经 / 赤纬

13.19° / -72.83°

来源

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

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way. Classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy, the SMC has a D25 isophotal diameter of about 5.78 kiloparsecs (18,900 light-years), and contains several hundred million stars. It has a total mass of approximately 7 billion solar masses.

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