The Large Magellanic Cloud is about 15, 000 light-years across.

大麦哲伦星云的直径大约为 15000 光年。

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N44F lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the closest galaxies to our own Milky Way.

N44 F位于大麦哲伦星云的中间，后者是最接近于我们银河系的星系之一。

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It was seen in 1987 amid vast billows of gas in the Tarantula Nebula within the Large Magellanic Cloud.

1987年科学家们在大麦哲伦星云里的蜘蛛星云的波涛滚滚的巨大气云中观测到这颗超新星。

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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