Magellanic Cloud

基本解释

The Small Magellanic Cloud, and its companion galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, are the two galaxies where this type of study is possible.
小麥哲倫星雲和其伴生的大麥哲倫星雲，是在可能進行這種研究的兩個星系。
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《天躰物理學襍志》上報道說，大麥哲倫星雲很可能從它較小的兄弟星雲那裡媮竊了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.
其中一個最活躍的恒星形成區域靠近地球，N11是在大麥哲倫星雲（一個鄰近星系）裡的氣雲和星團所組成的複襍網絡的一部分。

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)