Small Magellanic Cloud (Torben van Hees)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Tucana (Tuc) · Contains: NGC 152 · NGC 292 · NGC 330 · NGC 346 · NGC 371 · NGC 419 · NGC 456 · NGC 465 · Small Magellanic Cloud

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Small Magellanic Cloud

Link: http://astro.van-hees.name

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Small Magellanic Cloud

Link: http://astro.van-hees.name

An irregular dwarf galaxy the SMC is thought to be a former satellite of the Large Magellanic Cloud. It has actually collided with the latter in the past and is split in two - unfortunately the smaller remnant lies directly behind the larger in our line of sight. Data from 2006 suggests it is moving to fast to really be a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and is just moving past. I could not find a more recent study about this.

As a classical southern hemisphere target I just had to shoot this from Namibia - in hindsight, there are probably more spectacular targets, and this really wasn't the best place for it as it's quite low in the sky in Namibia.

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