Astronaut Matthew Dominick captured from ISS the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC, center) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC, upper left), dwarf galaxies in close proximity with the Milky Way galaxy. LMC is roughly one-hundredth the mass of the Milky Way and is the fourth-largest galaxy in the Local Group, after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way, and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33). SMC has a total mass of approximately 7 billion solar masses. At a distance of about 200,000 light-years, the SMC is among the nearest intergalactic neighbors of the Milky Way and is one of the most distant objects visible to the naked eye.
Reference: Matthew Dominick’s Tweet
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