SpazeDwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way
Small Magellanic Cloud
The Large Cloud’s little companion, slowly being pulled apart by it and by the Milky Way.
- Distance
- 200,000 light years
- Width
- 19,000 light years
- Stars
- ~7 billion
Made of
- Dark matter 90%
- Stars 2%
- Gas and dust 8%
Hundreds of billions of stars in a halo of dark matter
Modelled from rotation curves and star counts