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Large Magellanic Cloud
irregular galaxy, satellite of the Milky Way
Details
- Instance of
- dwarf galaxy, irregular galaxy, infrared source, gamma-ray source
- Has parts
- NGC 1866, NGC 1850, NGC 1978, Tarantula Nebula
- absolute magnitude
- -18.5
- apparent magnitude
- 0.4
- catalog code
- ESO 56-115, IRAS 05240-6948, LEDA 17223, Anon 0524-69, 2FGL J0526.6-6825e, 2EG J0532-6914, 3EG J0533-6916, 3FGL J0526.6-6825e, 2FHL J0526.6-6825e
- constellation
- Dorado
- declination
- -69.75611
- declination component of proper motion
- 0.229
- discoverer or inventor
- Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
- distance from Earth
- 0.05
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- SB(s)m
- mass
- 13000000000
- metallicity
- -0.55
- named after
- Ferdinand Magellan
- parent astronomical body
- Milky Way
- radial velocity
- 284
- radius
- 2.1
- redshift
- 0.00093
- right ascension
- 80.89417
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 1.910
- short name
- LMC, БМО, ВМВ, GMW, GNM, GMN, VMO
- time of discovery or invention
- 964
- topic's main category
- Category:Large Magellanic Cloud
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