The Astrology of Space - Matrix Software

The Astrology of Space
Chapter 13: External Galaxies
The Magellanic Cloud
The nearest neighbors to the Milky Way are the
Magellanic Clouds in the southern hemisphere, where
they appear as large nebulous naked-eye objects.
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) or Nubecula
Major (the "Greater Little Cloud" and the Small
Magellanic Cloud (SMC) or Nubecula Minor, the
"Lesser Little Cloud") appear to the naked-eye as
detached portions of the Milky Way and they are, in
fact, satellites of our galaxy. The Magellanic Clouds
are a close binary pair of Irregular dwarf galaxies that,
along with our galaxy, form a loose triplet sharing a
common barycenter and located about 5 kiloparsecs
from the center of our galaxy in the direction of the
LMC.
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