Local Group - Other Notable Objects

Other Notable Objects

  • Smith's Cloud, a high-velocity cloud, between 32,000 and 49,000 light years from Earth, and 8000 light years from the disk of the Milky Way Galaxy
  • HVC 127-41-330, a high-velocity cloud, 2.3 million light-years from Earth
  • Monoceros Ring, a ring of stars around the Milky Way which is proposed to consist of a stellar stream torn from the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy

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