The Small Magellanic Cloud (NGC 292) and 47 Tucanae (Ian Parr)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Tucana (Tuc) · Contains: 47 Tuc Cluster · NGC 104 · NGC 121 · NGC 292 · NGC 346 · NGC 371 · Small Magellanic Cloud · The star θ Tuc

The Small Magellanic Cloud (NGC 292) and 47 Tucanae, Ian Parr

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The Small Magellanic Cloud (NGC 292) and 47 Tucanae

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), or Nubecula Minor, is a dwarf irregular galaxy with a diameter of about 18,900 light-years about 200,000 light-years from the Milky Way and is one of the most distant objects visible to the naked eye in the Souther Hemisphere. It contains several hundred million stars with a total mass of approximately 7 billion solar masses. The SMC is among the nearest intergalactic neighbors of the Milky Way and is one of the most distant objects visible to the naked eye. With an apparent diameter of about 4.2° (8 times the Moon's) it covers an area of about 14 square degrees (70 times the Moon's area). On the right of this field is 47 Tucanae or 47 Tuc (NGC 104) , a globular cluster located in the constellation Tucana about 15,000 light years away from Earth, and 120 light years in diameter and an apparent magnitude of 4.1 and 44 arcminutes across. It is the second brightest globular cluster after Omega Centauri.

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