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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.
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Clouds move across the sky due to the wind. The wind carries the clouds in the direction it is blowing, causing them to drift and change shape as they move.
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Altitude
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 Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies located near the Milky Way. They do not have a distinct shape and are characterized by a mix of irregular and spiral features.
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a galaxy, whereas the Small Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy.
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.
That sounds like the Magellanic Clouds. Two galaxies that are satellites of our galaxy, visible in the Southern Hemisphere. They may be confused with clouds, but they are always in the same part of the sky (including in the apparent rotation of the sky around the Earth, of course).
Large and Small (LMC & SMC)
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.
The name of the irregular galaxies lying near the South celestial poles is called the Magellanic Clouds. The large Magellanic Cloud is called the Nubecula Major and the smaller one is called the Nubecula Minor.
Irregular Galaxies do not, such as the Small Magellanic Cloud
Elliptical? No. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are "dwarf" galaxies of "irregular" shape. Scientists have long believed that the SMC and LMC are "orbiting" the Milky Way, but recent analysis has cast some doubt on that; they may not actually be "orbiting".
The two Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies.