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Large Magellanic Cloud

The third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way and our largest satellite. Visible to the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere as a detached patch of the Milky Way. Hosted the closest supernova to Earth in modern times — SN 1987A.

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