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The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a Dwarf Galaxy that orbits our own Galaxy , the Milky Way . It lies at a distance of about 50 Kiloparsec s (≈160,000 Light-year s) away. It has about one-tenth as many stars as our Galaxy (i.e., about stars). While somewhat Irregular in morphology, it does have some traces of a spiral structure. The NASA Extragalactic Database lists the Hubble Sequence type as Irr/SB(s)m. The LMC may once have been a Barred Spiral Galaxy that was disrupted by the Milky Way to become somewhat Irregular . It still contains a central bar structure, and is the fourth largest member of the Local Group , following the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way , and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33). It is visible as a faint object in the night sky of the Southern Hemisphere , straddling the border between the Constellation s of Dorado and Mensa . HISTORY |
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