LARGE MAGELLANIC
CLOUD
Constellation: Mensa / Dorado.
Distance : 157 kilo light years / 48.5 kilo parsec.
Apparent mag : 0.9.
LMC is a nearby galaxy, once thought to be a satellite of our Milky way. LMC is the third nearest galaxy to the Milky way. It has a mass equivalent to approximately
10 billion times the mass of our sun, making it 1/10as massive as our Milky way.
LMC is the fourth largest galaxy in the local group, the first , second and third
Are Andromeda galaxy [m31], our own Milky way and Triangullum galaxy[m33].
LMC is considered as an irregular type galaxy. LMC contains a very prominent bar in
Its center suggesting that it may have previously been a barrel shaped spiral galaxy.
LMC’s irregular appearance is possibly the result of tidal intractions with both
Milky way and small magellanic cloud. LMC is visible as a faint “cloud” in the night sky, straddling the border between the constellations of Dorado and Mensa.
Like many irregular galaxies, the LMC is rich in gas and dust, and it is currently undergoing vigorous star forming activity. It is the home to the Tarantula nebula, the most active star-forming region in the local group.
LMC described as an “astronomical treasure-house, a great celestial laboratory for the study of growth and evolution of stars,”because many surveys have found roughly
60 globular clusters, 400 planetary nebulae and 700 open clusters, along with thousands of giants and super giant stars. Supernova 1987a- the nearest supernova in recent days- was also located in LMC.
Ferdinan Magellan on his voyage in 1519, observed the LMC, and was the first person to bring LMC, into common western knowledge. So , the galaxy now bears his name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytDIvBSi6cQ
CLOUD
Constellation: Mensa / Dorado.
Distance : 157 kilo light years / 48.5 kilo parsec.
Apparent mag : 0.9.
LMC is a nearby galaxy, once thought to be a satellite of our Milky way. LMC is the third nearest galaxy to the Milky way. It has a mass equivalent to approximately
10 billion times the mass of our sun, making it 1/10as massive as our Milky way.
LMC is the fourth largest galaxy in the local group, the first , second and third
Are Andromeda galaxy [m31], our own Milky way and Triangullum galaxy[m33].
LMC is considered as an irregular type galaxy. LMC contains a very prominent bar in
Its center suggesting that it may have previously been a barrel shaped spiral galaxy.
LMC’s irregular appearance is possibly the result of tidal intractions with both
Milky way and small magellanic cloud. LMC is visible as a faint “cloud” in the night sky, straddling the border between the constellations of Dorado and Mensa.
Like many irregular galaxies, the LMC is rich in gas and dust, and it is currently undergoing vigorous star forming activity. It is the home to the Tarantula nebula, the most active star-forming region in the local group.
LMC described as an “astronomical treasure-house, a great celestial laboratory for the study of growth and evolution of stars,”because many surveys have found roughly
60 globular clusters, 400 planetary nebulae and 700 open clusters, along with thousands of giants and super giant stars. Supernova 1987a- the nearest supernova in recent days- was also located in LMC.
Ferdinan Magellan on his voyage in 1519, observed the LMC, and was the first person to bring LMC, into common western knowledge. So , the galaxy now bears his name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytDIvBSi6cQ