Small Magellanic Cloud
dwarf irregular galaxy · satellite of the Milky Way
200,000 light-years from Earth
A dwarf galaxy being torn apart by the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Milky Way, trailing a bridge of gas and young stars behind it.
- 200,000 light-years away · a few hundred million stars
- kind
- galaxy
- catalogue
- NGC 292
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