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Large Magellanic Cloud, Don Pearce
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Large Magellanic Cloud

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Large Magellanic Cloud

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The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy and satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs, the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal and the possible dwarf irregular galaxy called the Canis Major Overdensity.

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Large Magellanic Cloud, Don Pearce