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.
小麦哲伦星云和其伴生的大麦哲伦星云，是在可能进行这种研究的两个星系。
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.
奥尔森的研究小组在将要出版的一期《天体物理学杂志》上报道说，大麦哲伦星云很可能从它较小的兄弟星云那里偷窃了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.
其中一个最活跃的恒星形成区域靠近地球，N11是在大麦哲伦星云（一个邻近星系）里的气云和星团所组成的复杂网络的一部分。

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)