Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Two small, irregularly shaped galaxies that are the galaxies closest to the Milky Way and are faintly visible near the south celestial pole.
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- proper noun astronomy collectively, the pair of galaxies, the
Large Magellanic Cloud andSmall Magellanic Cloud ; also sometimes includes the Magellanic Bridge and Magellanic Stream. - noun Plural form of
Magellanic Cloud .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It shows that you have come from the direction of what we call the Magellanic Clouds.
Objective: Bajor John Peel 2000
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They are known as the Magellanic Clouds, having been called after the navigator Magellan.
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
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In fact these "clouds" are billions of stars enveloped in a blanket of gaseous substance which today are known as the Magellanic Clouds, huge markers in the world's southern skies, named after one of the world's greatest explorers.
Stabroek News Stabroek staff 2010
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Objects of wider appeal also appear, including the Milky Way, nearby satellite galaxies called the Magellanic Clouds, and the neighboring spiral galaxies M31 and M33.
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It has been known for absolute ages; from high velocity stars, the anomalies in the galactic rotation, the shape of the Milky Way, the interactions of the Magellanic Clouds, and even the Milky Way's own collection of dwarf galaxies, etc. – that other dwarf galaxies have been consumed.
Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way | Universe Today 2010
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For most southern sky observers, the Magellanic Clouds and the Southern Cross are circumpolar, slowly spinning around the southern celestial pole each night without ever setting.
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It is difficult to describe the story without revealing much, but suffice it to say that the story involves the earth being pulled out of its existence in an alternate Cuban missile crisis and lain flat on a giant disc in the Magellanic Clouds.
Archive 2007-05-01 Tripp 2007
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It is difficult to describe the story without revealing much, but suffice it to say that the story involves the earth being pulled out of its existence in an alternate Cuban missile crisis and lain flat on a giant disc in the Magellanic Clouds.
Missile Gap Tripp 2007
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The Magellanic Clouds were visible as hazy smudges.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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The Magellanic Clouds were visible as hazy smudges.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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