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Re:New study shows Small Magellanic Cloud is two smaller gal... by dreamcompiler on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @12:34AM (#38851101)
The SMC is very close to the Milky Way.

Imagine a plan view: You see the Milky Way in its full width, then a gap, then the SMC. That gap is the width of two Milky Ways at most. Not 200 or 2000. Just 2.

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Re:New study shows Small Magellanic Cloud is two smaller gal... by icambron on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @02:01AM (#38851493)
For Andromeda, that gap is about 24. Despite the mind-bogglingly large distances involved, there's a funny sense in which inter-galactic space feels less empty than solar space or inter-stellar space.
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