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There are two Magellanic clouds at distances of 160,000 and 200,000 light-years from the Earth. 1 light year is 9.46073E12 kilometres.

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How far is the Magellanic Cloud from Earth?

The Large Magellanic Cloud is about 160,000 light years away. The Small Magellanic Cloud is about 200,000 light years away.


How far is the milky way away from the large magellanic cloud?

No. The Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud are satellite galaxies, separate from the Milky Way. They were named in honor of Ferdinand Magellan, the leader of the first European expedition to circumnavigate the Earth. The LMC and SMC are only visible south of the equator.


What is the closest Large Magellanic cloud galaxy to ours.?

The Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy is the closest galaxy to the Milky Way, located approximately 163,000 light-years away.


What are two irregular galaxies about 170000 light -years away from earth?

There are several small galaxies accompanying our Milky Way, at approximately that distance; the best-know are the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, which can both be seen with the naked eye (if you live sufficiently towards the south).


What galaxy is the closet large galaxy to the Milky Way?

The closest spiral galaxy to us is known as the Andromeda galaxy.The Large and Small Magellanic Cloud closer,but there not spiral galaxy there dwarf galaxies.The Andromeda galaxy is about 2,000,000 light years away,while the Large Magellanic Cloud is 160,000 light years away,and the Small Magellanic Cloud is 200,000 light years away.That is why the Large Magellanic Cloud looks larger.


What are the closest dwarf galaxies to the Milky Way?

Surprisingly, Andromeda is not the closest galaxy to the milky way galaxy; Draco is the closest dwarf galaxy to the Milky Way. Following that is Ursa Minor, and then the small Magellanic cloud, and then the large Magellanic cloud. Amazingly, Andromeda is 14 galaxies away!


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.


How far is the closest irregular galaxy?

The closest irregular galaxy to us is the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is located around 163,000 light-years away from Earth. It is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and can be seen with the naked eye from the southern hemisphere.


What cloud is closest to the sky?

Clouds fly around all the time, and it's impossible to determine which cloud is the furthest away from the Earth.


What is the nearest galexy?

The nearest major galaxy is Andromeda which is only 2.5 million light years away. There are two dwarf galaxies near the Milky Way called the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud roughly 75,000 light years away.In about 2.5 billion years, Andromeda and the Milky Way will merge.


What is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way Galaxy?

The closest galaxy to our galaxy the Sagittarius galaxy but its Dwarf Galaxy, Andromeda is the Complete Galaxy and yet classified as the Galaxy which is closest to our galaxy. Facts : There are 12 Dwarf galaxies and 1 complete galaxy within the distance of 500,000 light years. Andromeda Galaxy is moving towards our galaxy at the speed 300,000 Kilometers per hour, but its so far that i would take millions of year to have a clash.


How far is the orrt cloud away from earth?

The Oort Cloud is a vast spherical shell of icy objects that lies far beyond the furthest reaches of our solar system, approximately 0.5 to 3 light-years away from Earth. This puts it at an estimated distance of about 30,000 to 190,000 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun.