Deep-sky object
Small Magellanic Cloud
Small Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf irregular galaxy somewhere between 199 480 and 207 830 light-years away, in Tucana, about 19 000 light-years across.
The Large Cloud's smaller companion, a naked-eye smudge from the south, and the pair that gave the Magellanic Stream its name.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Type
- dwarf irregular galaxy
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Distance
- 199 480 to 207 830 light-years
- Size
- about 19 000 light-years across
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 2.7
- Catalogue
- NGC 292
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a soft glow in the manner of its kind at its measured distance, as wide as it measures; the pattern in it is illustrative and its true shape is not drawn — the kind of thing, not this exact one.