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.
Triangulum Galaxy
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The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy 2.878 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598. With the D25 isophotal diameter of 18.74 kilop
Large Magellanic Cloud
…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 bar that is geometrically off-center, suggesting that it was once a barred…
Galaxy Messier 33 in Triangulum (the Triangulum Galaxy)
NGC 604 in the Triangulum Galaxy
Composite of about 54 different pointings with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys
Infrared image of M33 taken with the Spitzer Space Telescope