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Definition of Magellanic cloud

1. Noun. Either of two small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way; visible near the south celestial pole.

Definition of Magellanic cloud

1. Noun. (galaxy) Either of two irregular galaxies that are close companions of our Milky Way galaxy. ¹

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Literary usage of Magellanic cloud

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. General Astronomy by Harold Spencer Jones (1922)
"In the Small magellanic cloud many of these stars have been found. The distance of the Cloud is so large compared with its linear dimensions that all the ..."

2. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1919)
"From the only bright-line nebula in the Small magellanic cloud, ... From seventeen determinations in the Great magellanic cloud a mean radial velocity of ..."

3. Stellar Movements and the Structure of the Universe by Arthur Stanley Eddington (1914)
"In this way the distance of the Lesser magellanic cloud is found to be 10000 parsecs—the greatest distance we have yet had occasion to mention. ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"Seventy-three of these are in Orion, one hundred and fifty-two in the Large magellanic cloud, fifty-seven in the Small magellanic cloud ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"The Greater magellanic cloud, photographed by Bailey, at the Arequipa, Peru, station of the Harvard College Observatory. Greater Cloud, averaging 175 miles ..."

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