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Magellanic Cloud   /mˌædʒəlˈænɪk klaʊd/   Listen
Magellanic Cloud

noun
1.
Either of two small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way; visible near the south celestial pole.



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"Magellanic cloud" Quotes from Famous Books



... as I write a picture of the southern heavens, drawn by myself, in which this vacant space—eccentric in position but circular in shape—is shown. The centre lies close by the Lesser Magellanic cloud—between the stars Kappa Toucani and Eta Hydri of our modern maps, but much nearer to the last named. Near this spot, then, we may be sure, lay the southern pole of the star-sphere when the old constellations, or at least the southern ones, ...
— Myths and Marvels of Astronomy • Richard A. Proctor
... Fig. 27, prefer the Milky Way, but not so markedly. The Wolf-Rayets, without exception, are located in the Milky Way and in the Magellanic Clouds, and those in the Milky Way are remarkably near to its central plane. 107 of these objects are known, 1 is in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud, and 21 are in the Greater Magellanic Cloud. The remaining 85 average less than 2 3/4 degrees from the central ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86


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