Large Magellanic Cloud
At a glance
- Type
- Galaxy
- Distance
- Other galaxies
- Naked eye
- Seen without a telescope
- Known since
- Before telescopes (before 1600)
- Colour
- White
- Feature
- Nothing special
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- The Large Magellanic Cloud is named after Ferdinand Magellan, whose crew wrote about it on the first voyage around the world.
- In 1987 people saw a star explode in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the closest supernova seen in almost 400 years.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q49957 · All space objects · All entries