SpazeDwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way
Large Magellanic Cloud
A satellite galaxy visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere. In 1987 a star exploded here, the closest supernova seen in centuries.
- Distance
- 163,000 light years
- Width
- 32,000 light years
- Stars
- ~30 billion
Made of
- Dark matter 90%
- Stars 5%
- Gas and dust 5%
Hundreds of billions of stars in a halo of dark matter
Modelled from rotation curves and star counts