About ioo Wolf-Rayet stars are known, of which y Velorum is the brightest; they are confined to the region of the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds.
It does not, however, seem probable that their apparent anti-galactic tendency has such a significance; in the Magellanic Clouds spiral nebulae are very abundant, a fact which shows that there is no essential antipathy between the stars and the spiral nebulae.
The Large and small Magellanic Clouds reside 160,000 light-years and 210,000 light-years from us, respectively.
Walk to Gypsy Cove to see Magellanic penguins at 3pm.
