The story for kids
This is the Small Magellanic Cloud, the Large Cloud's little brother. The two of them go around our galaxy together.
Facts
- It is the Milky Way's other companion – even smaller than the Large Cloud.
- The Large and Small Clouds pull on each other and are joined by a “bridge” of stars.
- Both of them can only be seen from the southern half of Earth.
Numbers
- Type
- Irregular
- Distance
- ~200,000 light-years
- Stars
- a few billion