How to Use Small Magellanic Cloud in a Sentence
Small Magellanic Cloud
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The Small Magellanic Cloud is a conspicuous exception.
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Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
19 Mar. 2026
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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.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
7 June 2026
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The Large Magellanic Cloud lies about 160,000 light-years from Earth, the Small Magellanic Cloud about 200,000 light-years away.
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IEEE Spectrum,
16 Sep. 2025
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Those interactions—particularly with the Milky Way and the neighboring Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) — have pulled at its structure, warping its disk and rearranging its stars and gas.
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
3 Dec. 2025
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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.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
22 June 2026
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