Large Magellanic Cloud
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The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy and satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs, the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the S
Small part of the Large Magellanic Cloud
ESO's VISTA image of the LMC
Two very different glowing gas clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud, NGC 2014 (red) and NGC 2020 (blue)
NGC 1783 is one of the biggest globular clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Local Group
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The Local Group is the galaxy group that includes the Milky Way, where Earth is located. It consists of two collections of galaxies in a "dumbbell" shape; the Milky Way and its satellite galaxies form
Large Magellanic Cloud
…about 9.86 kiloparsecs (32,200 light-years) across and has roughly one-hundredth the mass of the Milky Way, making it the fourth-largest galaxy in the Local Group after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way, and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33). The LMC is classified as a Magellanic spiral. It contains a stellar…
Local Group of galaxies, including the massive members Messier 31 (Andromeda Galaxy) and Milky Way, as well as other nearby galaxies. The center of the group is located between the two major galaxies.
Distribution of the iron content (in logarithmic scale) in four neighbouring dwarf galaxies of the Milky Way
Overview of the structure and trajectory of the Local Group
Triangulum Galaxy