Southern · LMC

Dorado

A southern constellation that contains most of the Large Magellanic Cloud — our nearest galactic satellite at 160,000 light-years. The LMC is visible to the naked eye as a detached patch of the Milky Way and hosted the supernova SN 1987A.

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