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The Magellanic clouds with Milky Way

by

Minoru Yoneto/Novapix

Reference

a-gax90-00010

Date

2007-02-21

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.