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Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan and his crew had plentyof time to study the southern sky during thefirst circumnavigation of planet Earth.As a result, two celestial wonderseasily visible for southern hemisphere skygazersare known as the Clouds of Magellan.These cosmic clouds are now understood to be dwarfirregular galaxies, satellitesof our larger spiral Milky Way Galaxy.The SmallMagellanic Cloud actually spans 15,000 light-years or soand contains several hundred million stars.About 210,000 light-years away in the constellation Tucana ,it is more distant than other known Milky Waysatellite galaxies, including the Canis Major and SagittariusDwarf galaxies and the LargeMagellanic Cloud . Thissharp image also includes two foreground globularstar clusters NGC 362 (bottom right) and 47 Tucanae.Spectacular 47 Tuc anaeis a mere 13,000 light-years away and seen here to the left of the Small Magellanic Cloud .


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