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The Clouds of Magellan borrowed their name from the Portuguese navigator who was the first to launch his ships in a voyage of circumnavigation (turn of the world in boat) between 1519 and 1522. Fernando of Magellan (1480-1520) set sail towards Cape Horn when his sailors saw two fuzzy cloud like objects, nestled between the southern constellations of Doradus and Tucana, that are now known as the Clouds of Magellan. In most of the northern hemisphere, the Clouds of Magellan remain constantly below the horizon. ...
Both Magellanic Clouds are less than 25 degrees from the South Celestial Pole
The first preserved mention of the Large Magellanic Cloud was by Persian astronomer Al Sufi, who in 964 A. ...
The Magellanic Clouds are small irregular galaxies, satellites of our larger Milky Way spiral galaxy. ...
The Small Magellan Clouds orbits our Milky Way galaxy at about 210,000 light years distance, which makes it the third-nearest external galaxy known. The masses of the Clouds are 2 billion and 10 billion solar masses.
The two Clouds of Magellan are undoubtedly connected together and with the Milky Way by gravity. ...
The Clouds of Magellan are connected together and with the Milky Way by a "bridge" - a stream of cold hydrogen gas whose origin is still controversial.
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