Magellanic Clouds Definition

măjə-lănĭk
noun
Two small, irregularly shaped galaxies that are the galaxies closest to the Milky Way and are faintly visible near the south celestial pole.
American Heritage
Plural form of Magellanic Cloud.
Wiktionary
pronoun
(astronomy) Collectively, the pair of galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud; also sometimes includes the Magellanic Bridge and Magellanic Stream.
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Origin of Magellanic Clouds

  • After Ferdinand Magellan

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Magellanic Clouds Sentence Examples

  • 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.

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