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What are the two cloud Magellan galaxies that orbit the milky way?
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∙ 12y ago
They are simply known as LMC and SMC.
As far as what they are made of, They are simply galaxies.
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What revolves around the Milky Way galaxy?
There are two satellite galaxies, the Greater Magellanic Cloud and the Lesser Magellanic Cloud, which orbit the Milky Way.
What are the names of some irregular galaxies?
Canis Major Dwarf and Small Magellanic Cloud are irregular satellite galaxies of the Milky Way.The two irregular galaxies that orbit the Milky Way are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
What does the milky way galaxy orbit and how long does it take?
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How many galaxies did. Earth orbit?
The Earth, along with the Sun and all the other planets orbit around the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy.
What is a Magallanic cloud?
The Magellanic clouds are two small galaxies visible in the night sky only from the Southern Hemisphere. Up until 1994 when an even closer one was discovered, they were the closest galaxies to our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The Magellanic clouds are believed to be in orbit around our galaxy.
What type of galaxy is the Small magellanic cloud?
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. It and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are visible from the southern hemisphere, and were named in honor of Ferdinand Magellan, whose crew sailing around the world were the first Europeans to see them.
Is a barred spiral galaxy a type of spiral galaxy?
What do you mean with "the" barred spiral galaxy? There is not one such galaxy; there are millions of them. Also, the only galaxies that can be said to "orbit" the Milky Way are some nearby dwarf galaxies. The galaxies in the Local Group (the group which includes the Milky Way) are gravitationally bound to the Local Group, but they don't exactly orbit one another; it's probably more like they orbit around their common center of mass.
What does a galaxy rotate around?
I believe the current understanding is that galaxies (that are not part of local groups of galaxies) don't orbit anything. There is no universal center, matter seems to be distributed more or less evenly no matter what part of the sky we observe, and the galaxies are moving away from one another according to the current established principles. Some galaxies are members of groups of galaxies, and perhaps some of these groups are slowly turning on an axis, a little bit like materials in an accretion disk.
Where in space would you look for a globular cluster?
In the Milky Way galactic halo, orbiting the galactic center in a long elliptical orbit around the galactic center
What keeps the sun in orbit in the milky way?
Gravity causes all orbits. It is believed that there is a "super massive" black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and most or all other galaxies, that serves as the primary source of gravity.
Is there gravity in outer space?
Yes, gravity exists in outer space. Gravity holds the moon in its orbit around the earth. It holds the earth in orbit around the sun. It holds the milky way galaxy together. It holds the local group of galaxies together. And the local group of galaxies might be a group of a string of galaxies held together by the great attractor.
What does the Milky Way move around?
Viewed from the Galactic North Pole, the Milky Way galaxy is moving anticlockwise.
