{"id":4916,"date":"2023-01-15T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2025-03-27T03:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:42:11","slug":"what-is-a-magellanic-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-a-magellanic-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Magellanic Cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>As per the American space agency, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) star-forming region <strong>NGC 346<\/strong> is one of the most dynamic in nearby galaxies and is a dwarf galaxy. It is close to the Milky Way with lower metal concentrations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is Magellanic Cloud?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Magellanic Clouds are <strong>irregular galaxies<\/strong> that share a gaseous envelope and lie about 22\u00b0 apart in the sky near the south celestial pole.<\/li>\n<li>They are comprised of two irregular galaxies, <strong>the Large Magellanic Cloud<\/strong> (LMC) and the <strong>Small Magellanic Cloud<\/strong> (SMC), which orbit the Milky Way once every 1,500 million years and each other once every 900 million years.<\/li>\n<li>These companion galaxies were named for the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, whose crew discovered them during the first voyage around the world (1519\u201322).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Magellanic Clouds were formed at about the same time as the Milky Way Galaxy, approximately 13 billion years ago.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are presently captured in orbits around the Milky Way Galaxy and have experienced several tidal encounters with each other and with the Galaxy.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They contain numerous <strong>young stars and star clusters<\/strong>, as well as some much older stars.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Magellanic Clouds are visible to the unaided eye in the Southern Hemisphere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Nebula?<\/h3>\n<p>A nebula is a giant interstellar cloud of dust and hydrogen, helium, and other ionised gases in space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<u>NASA&#8217;s James Webb telescope finds star formation in a dynamic cluster: Report<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the world&#8217;s most powerful telescope, NASA&#8217;s James Webb telescope, has found a star formation in a dynamic cluster that lies within a nebula 200,000 light years away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}