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The Great Magelan Cloud - Data from Telescope Live, Gustav Lundby
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The Great Magellanic Cloud is another name for the **Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)**¹²³. It is a **spiral galaxy** that orbits the Milky Way as a satellite galaxy¹²³. It is the largest and brightest member of the **Local Group** of galaxies, which also includes the Small Magellanic Cloud, the Andromeda Galaxy, the Triangulum Galaxy and the Milky Way¹².

The LMC was discovered by **Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi**, a Persian astronomer, in 964 CE, who described it as a \"small cloud\"¹². It was later observed by **Amerigo Vespucci** in 1503-1504 and by **Ferdinand Magellan** in 1519-1522, who brought it to the attention of European astronomers¹². It was catalogued by **Charles Messier** in 1764 as the 31st object in his list of nebulous objects¹².

The LMC has a diameter of about 14,000 light years and contains about one trillion stars¹². It has several regions of active star formation, such as the Tarantula Nebula, the largest and most luminous nebula in the Local Group¹². It also has a supermassive black hole at its center with a mass of about 140 million times that of the Sun¹².

The LMC has an apparent magnitude of **0.9** and can be seen with the naked eye from the southern hemisphere and from some parts of the northern hemisphere¹². It appears as a diffuse patch of light near the constellation Dorado¹². It is best seen from the southern hemisphere during summer months².

Kilde: Samtale med Bing, 18.6.2023
(1) Large Magellanic Cloud - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud.
(2) Magellanic Clouds - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellanic_Clouds.
(3) Large Magellanic Cloud | NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2434.html.

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The Great Magelan Cloud - Data from Telescope Live, Gustav Lundby