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Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), Israel Barbosa de Brito
Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC)
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Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC)

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Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), Israel Barbosa de Brito
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Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC)

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The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), or Nubecula Minor, is a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way Classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy, the SMC has a diameter of about 7,000 light-years. The SMC contains a central bar structure, and astronomers speculate that it was once a barred spiral galaxy that was disrupted by the Milky Way to become somewhat irregular. At a distance of about 200,000 light-years, 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.

Source: Wikipedia.

The images were captured in 2021, in Alto Paraiso, Goias, Brazil.

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14 lights 180s, ISO 1600, total integration time: 42 min. Camera Temperature 15 - 18 ºC. No calibration frames applied.

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Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), Israel Barbosa de Brito