How to Use Large Magellanic Cloud in a Sentence

Large Magellanic Cloud

noun
  • The Large Magellanic Cloud alone is estimated to have 30 billion stars.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Sep. 2025
  • From the Large Magellanic Cloud, the closest intact galaxy beyond the Milky Way.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope caught one of these clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Key among them is the expanding cloud of debris formed from the explosion of supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 6 July 2026
  • This image was taken from Cerro Pachón in Chile, though the Large Magellanic Cloud is located around 160,000 light-years from Earth.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 3 Dec. 2025
  • This image captures the Rubin Observatory beneath a dazzling sweep of the southern Milky Way galaxy, with the Large Magellanic Cloud glowing softly to the left.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The Small Magellanic Cloud seems to be coming undone at the gravitational hands of its sibling galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, which has been found to be unwrapping its little brother's stars.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 7 June 2026
  • The Large Magellanic Cloud lies about 160,000 light-years from Earth, the Small Magellanic Cloud about 200,000 light-years away.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope caught this stunning image of the Tarantula nebula, the largest and brightest stellar factory in the Large Magellanic Cloud — a dwarf galaxy orbiting our own.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Article continues below Star clusters and dimmer nebulas are visible threaded through the galactic plane, while the Large Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way — appears as a hazy patch of light to the bottom right of the shot.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The Tarantula nebula lives approximately 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, in the constellations of Dorado and Mensa.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Article continues below The Tarantula Nebula is situated some 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
    — Brett Tingley, Space.com, 4 May 2026
  • By considering the way the Large Magellanic Cloud's gravity pulls on the Milky Way and how the gravity of the Triangulum Galaxy pulls on Andromeda, researchers refined how close Andromeda and the Milky Way galaxies will get by running a multitude of simulations.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Dec. 2025
  • In a surprising discovery, astronomers have found an enormous, shell-like structure called a nova super-remnant (NSR) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a galaxy located approximately 160,000 light-years from Earth.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The doomed star in question is WOH G64 (also known as IRAS 04553–6825), located in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), around 163,000 light-years away.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • These include Omega Centauri, NGC 2808 and NGC 1783 in the Milky Way galaxy, as well as NGC 411 in the Small Magellanic Cloud and NGC 1696 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 22 June 2026

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