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English: Small Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf irregular galaxy satellite of the Milky Way 200,000 ly away - One of the most distant objects visible to the naked eye - 7,000 ly diameter - Once a barred spiral galaxy (disrupted by the Milky Way), still holds a central bar structure - Once a satellite of the LMC, now a satellite of the Milky Way (with a remaining bridge of gas connecting the SMC with the LMC)
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Small Magellanic Cloud as photographed by amateur astronomer. Unrelated stars have been edited out.

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9 August 2020

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