View FROM the LMC? (APOD 23 Jan 2006)
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View FROM the LMC? (APOD 23 Jan 2006)
I wonder what the Milky Way would look like from a planet in the Large Magellenic Cloud?
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APOD: The LMC Galaxy in Glowing Gas (2006 Jan 23)
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060123.html
I'm thinking it would a lot like Andromeda close up.
I don't know if it was ever discussed before; but, it the Milky way ever collided with another galaxy: that the Magellanic Clouds may be remnants from that interaction. In my perspective the clouds don't really look like developed galaxies. Are there other Small galaxies out there around other spiral galaxies similar to the Magellanic Clouds???
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I'm thinking it would a lot like Andromeda close up.
I don't know if it was ever discussed before; but, it the Milky way ever collided with another galaxy: that the Magellanic Clouds may be remnants from that interaction. In my perspective the clouds don't really look like developed galaxies. Are there other Small galaxies out there around other spiral galaxies similar to the Magellanic Clouds???
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http://www.imagehosting.us/index.php?ac ... nt=1123329
This is a likely possible view fron the LMC looking towards the Milky Way & Andromeda. Notice tiny Andromeda is at about the 11:00 position.
(SORRY, THE ABOVE LINK IS DOWN)
note: it is actually NGC 891 off the "Best of APOD galaxies" website
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/galaxy.html
This is a likely possible view fron the LMC looking towards the Milky Way & Andromeda. Notice tiny Andromeda is at about the 11:00 position.
(SORRY, THE ABOVE LINK IS DOWN)
note: it is actually NGC 891 off the "Best of APOD galaxies" website
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/galaxy.html
Last edited by BMAONE23 on Tue May 08, 2007 2:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.
This artists concept image is a great posible view from outside of the Milky Way
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2006 ... /print.jpg
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2006 ... /print.jpg
Hi all, just thought I'd add these links, they list as far as I know all of the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way.
http://www.astro.uu.se/~ns/mwsat.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way' ... e_galaxies
To answer Orins question, there are many small galaxies observed around essentially all large galaxies, andromeda has even more than the MW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda' ... e_galaxies
All of the small galaxies are the remnants of a much more populous group of small galaxies that have been absorbed into the larger galaxies as the Sagittarius dwarf is now.
http://www.astro.uu.se/~ns/mwsat.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way' ... e_galaxies
To answer Orins question, there are many small galaxies observed around essentially all large galaxies, andromeda has even more than the MW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda' ... e_galaxies
All of the small galaxies are the remnants of a much more populous group of small galaxies that have been absorbed into the larger galaxies as the Sagittarius dwarf is now.
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The LMC is about 180,000 light years away.
Using astros link,we see it from a few south east
http://www.astro.uu.se/~ns/mwsat.html
Meaning we would see it like , by using BMAONE link http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/galaxy.html
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/n5005.html
or maybe
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/n4244.html
or maybe
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/n4088.html
If one of you computer masters can rotate the galaxy image to be seen from a position of south east, maybe we could get a better image.
But! imagine it to be only 160,000 light years ways, it would fill the sky seeing it from SMC.
The LMC is about 180,000 light years away.
Using astros link,we see it from a few south east
http://www.astro.uu.se/~ns/mwsat.html
Meaning we would see it like , by using BMAONE link http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/galaxy.html
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/n5005.html
or maybe
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/n4244.html
or maybe
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/n4088.html
If one of you computer masters can rotate the galaxy image to be seen from a position of south east, maybe we could get a better image.
But! imagine it to be only 160,000 light years ways, it would fill the sky seeing it from SMC.
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Re: View FROM the LMC? (APOD 23 Jan 2006)
That was a fascinating question, so I spent some time looking it up. I wanted to know the diameter of the LMC because I already knew the diameter of our own galaxy, and could therefore get the relative size. In doing so I discovered that Wikipedia already answered the question.greg@lhoti.com wrote:I wonder what the Milky Way would look like from a planet in the Large Magellenic Cloud?
Oh, another page puts the Milky Way at 20 times the diameter of the LMC.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud
From a hypothetical planet in the LMC, the Milky Way would be a spectacular sight. The galaxy's total apparent magnitude would be -2.0—over 14 times brighter than the LMC appears to us on Earth—and it would span about 36° across the sky, which is the width of over 70 full moons. Furthermore, because of the LMC's high galactic latitude, an observer there would get an oblique view of the entire galaxy, free from the interference of interstellar dust that makes studying in the Milky Way's plane difficult from Earth.[10] The SMC would be about magnitude 0.6, substantially brighter than the LMC appears to us.
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