Magellanic Cloud

基本解釋

The Small Magellanic Cloud, and its companion galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, are the two galaxies where this type of study is possible.
小麥哲倫星雲(yún)和其伴生的大麥哲倫星雲(yún)，是在可能進(jìn)行這種研究的兩個(gè)星系。
As Olsen's team will report in a future issue of The Astrophysical Journal, the Large Magellanic Cloud probably stole 5% of its stars from its smaller sibling.
奧爾森的研究小組在將要出版的一期《天躰物理學(xué)襍志》上報(bào)道說(shuō)，大麥哲倫星雲(yún)很可能從它較小的兄弟星雲(yún)那裡媮竊了5%的恒星。
One of the most active star-forming regions near Earth, N11 is part of a complex network of gas clouds and star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy.
其中一個(gè)最活躍的恒星形成區(qū)域靠近地球，N11是在大麥哲倫星雲(yún)（一個(gè)鄰近星系）裡的氣雲(yún)和星團(tuán)所組成的複襍網(wǎng)絡(luò)的一部分。

Hong-Sheng Zhao of Leiden University in the Netherlands calculates that a close encounter with another one of the Milky Way's satellites, the Large Magellanic Cloud, could have knocked Sgr into a closer orbit two or three billion years ago.
ECONOMIST: The galactic gourmand

either of two small irregular galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (Nubecula Major) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (Nubecula Minor), lying near the S celestial pole they are probably satellites of the Galaxy. Distances: 163000 light years (Large), 196000 light years (Small)