| Large Magellanic Cloud | … |
|---|---|
| A map of the Large Magellanic Cloud with the brightest features annotated | … |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | … |
| Constellation | Dorado/Mensa |
| Right ascension | 05 23 341 |
| Declination | −69° 45.4′1 |
| Distance | 163,000 light-years (49.97 kpc)2 |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 0.131 |
| Characteristics | … |
| Type | SB(s)m1 |
| Mass | 1×10 (excluding dark matter), 1.38×103 (including dark matter). M |
| Number of stars | 20 billion4 |
| Size | 9.86 kpc (32,200 ly)1 (diameter; 25.0 mag/arcsec B-band isophote)5 |
| Apparent size (V) | 10.75° × 9.17°1 |
| Other designations | … |
| LMC, ESO 56- G 115, PGC 17223,1 Nubecula Major6 | … |
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Footnotes
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“NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database”. Results for Large Magellanic Cloud. Retrieved 29 July 2022. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7
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Pietrzyński, G.; Graczyk, D.; Gieren, W.; et al. (March 2013). “An eclipsing-binary distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud accurate to two per cent”. Nature. 495 (7439): 76–79. arXiv:1303.2063. Bibcode:2013Natur.495…76P. doi:10.1038/nature11878. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 23467166. S2CID 4417699. ↩
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Erkal, Denis (2019). “The total mass of the Large Magellanic Cloud from its perturbation on the Orphan stream”. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 487 (2): 2685–2700. arXiv:1812.08192. doi:10.1093/mnras/stz1371. ↩
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Dick, Steven J. (2019). Classifying the Cosmos: How We Can Make Sense of the Celestial Landscape. Astronomers’ Universe (1st ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-030-10380-4. ↩
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De Vaucouleurs, Gerard; De Vaucouleurs, Antoinette; Corwin, Herold G.; Buta, Ronald J.; Paturel, Georges; Fouque, Pascal (1991). Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies. Bibcode:1991rc3..book…D. ↩
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Buscombe, William (1954). “The Magellanic Clouds”. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Leaflets. 7 (302): 9. Bibcode:1954ASPL…7…9B. ISSN 0004-6272. ↩