Small Magellanic Cloud

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Small Magellanic Cloud [′smȯl ¦maj·ə¦lan·ik ′klau̇d]

(astronomy)

The smaller of the two star clouds near the south celestial pole; it is about 170,000 light-years away and contains a wide assortment of giant and variable stars, star clusters, and nebulae. Also known as Nubecula Minor.

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No references found			3 (SNR 0104 for short), is in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way, and was found by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Mysterious supernova remnant puzzles astronomers by Asian News International To his surprise, he uncovered another one a little less than 230,000 light years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits our own Milky Way. Newly discovered star hidden in plain sight by USA Today (Magazine) The Large Magellanic Cloud is about 160,000 light-years from the Milky Way and has about one-twentieth the Milky Way's diameter, while the Small Magellanic Cloud, one-200th the Milky Way's size, lies about 200,000 lightyears distant. Motion of two nearby galaxies clouds the picture by Cowen, R. / Science News			Småland Smale, John Smale, Stephen SMALGOL Smalian's formula Smalininkai small small arm Small Arms small bindweed Small Business Edition Small Business Server small calorie small circle small computer system interface Small Deeds Theory Small Digital Computers small diurnal range Small Earless Owls Small Group small hail Small Holding small ice floe Small Intestine small ion Small Magellanic Cloud small nucleolar ribonucleic acid small of the stock Small Outline DIMM small outline gull-wing small perturbation small polaron small print Small Public Schools Small Sample small scale small talk small tropic range Small, Albion W. Small, Albion Woodbury Small, Lennie small-angle scattering small-arms ammunition small-arms sling small-bore practice Small-C Small-Caliber Artillery Small-Capacity School small-craft warning small-diameter blasthole small-ion combination			Small Library Management System Small Lightweight Chemical Detector Small Lightweight UHF Small Lipid-Binding Protein small liver fluke small liver fluke small liver fluke small liver fluke small loan company Small Loan Guarantee Scheme Small Local and Minority Business Enterprise Small Local Business Enterprise Small Logic Controller Small Loss of Coolant Accident Small Luxury Hotels Small Luxury Houses small lymphocyte small lymphocyte small lymphocyte Small Lymphocytes with Convoluted and Cleaved Nuclei Small lymphocytic lymphoma Small lymphocytic lymphoma Small lymphocytic lymphoma Small lymphocytic lymphoma small lymphocytic T-cell lymphoma small lymphocytic T-cell lymphoma small lymphocytic T-cell lymphoma Small magazine Small Magelannic Cloud Small Magelannic Cloud Small Magellanic Cloud Small Mail Transfer Protocol Small Man Complex Small Man on Campus Small Man Syndrome Small Man's Disease Small Management Element Small Manufacturing Small Mass Measurement Device Small Matter of Coding Small matter of programming small meal syndrome Small Medium and Large Businesses Small Medium Business Account Manager Small Medium Enterprise Development Program Small Medium Industry Small Medium Local Exchange Small Membrane Protein 1 small metacarpal bone small metacarpal bone Small Minimum-Energy Communication Network Small Minority Business Enterprise Small Missile Alternate Inertial Navigation System Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology Small Mobile Office Small Model Airplane Lovers League

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