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Magellanic may
refer to:
Magellanic Steppe, 7th
largest desert in the world, see
Patagonian Desert Magellanic Straits, a sea p****ageway at the tip of...
- The
Magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) is a
South American penguin,
breeding in
coastal Patagonia,
including Argentina, Chile, and the Falkland...
- The
Magellanic Clouds (
Magellanic system or
Nubeculae Magellani) are two
irregular dwarf galaxies in the
southern celestial hemisphere.
Orbiting the Milky...
- The
Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a
spiral satellite galaxy of the
Milky Way. At a
distance of
around 50 kilop****cs (163,000 light-years), the LMC is...
- The
Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a
dwarf galaxy near the
Milky Way.
classified as a
dwarf irregular galaxy, the SMC has a D25
isophotal diameter of...
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Magellanic spiral galaxies are (usually)
dwarf galaxies which are
classified as the type Sm (and SAm, SBm, SABm). They are
galaxies with one
single spiral...
- The
Magellanic Stream is a
stream of high-velocity
clouds of gas
extending from the
Large and
Small Magellanic Clouds over 100°
through the
Galactic south...
- The
Magellanic plover (Pluvianellus socialis) is a rare
wader found only in
southernmost South America. It was long
placed in with the
other plovers in...
- The
Magellanic wood**** (Campephilus magellanicus) is a
species of
large wood****
found in
southern Chile and
southwestern Argentina; it is resident...
- abandoned. In 1848,
Punta Arenas was
founded ****her north,
where the
Magellanic forests meet the
Patagonian plains. In
Tierra del Fuego,
across the strait...
