The southern hemisphere, and if you can get to Antartica, you're at the best possible spot.
The Small Magellanic Cloud is irregular in shape, with a bar structure at its center. It is a dwarf galaxy that is gravitationally bound to our Milky Way galaxy.
A cloud is a dense visible mass of suspended water droplets or ice crystals in the atmosphere.
The Small Magellanic Cloud circles around the South Celestial Pole almost opposite the Southern Cross (Crux), so you can use Crux to find it. Just follow the long line of Crux from the brightest star at the foot (α Crucis) for about six lengths of the cross - you'll see the SMC as a patch of light nearby if you're in a dark enough area. Once you've found the SMC, look about one hand-span towards Crux, and you should see a larger bar-shaped patch of light - the Large Magellanic Clouds. Because they're so close to the South Celestial Pole, the Magellanic Clouds can only be seen from the southern hemisphere.
The top of a tornado is called the funnel cloud. This is the visible, rotating column of air that extends from the cloud base down towards the ground.
A cumulonimbus cloud is typically large, dark, and responsible for producing thunderstorms. These clouds are characterized by their towering structure and can lead to heavy rainfall, lightning, thunder, and sometimes hail or strong winds.
The Large Magellanic cloud.
There are two Magellanic clouds. Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud. Distance to Large Magellanic Cloud: 158,200 light years. Distance to Small Magellanic Cloud: 199,000 light years.
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a galaxy, whereas the Small Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy.
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.
The Large Magellanic Cloud is about 160,000 light years away. The Small Magellanic Cloud is about 200,000 light years away.
No. It is a small galaxy.
The Andromeda galaxy (M31), the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic 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.
Small Magellanic cloud galaxies are shaped irregularly. They do not follow a regular form pattern when they are being created.
About 10 billion
12,600.
Milky Way, M31 (the Andromeda Galaxy), the Triangulum Galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud, ...