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Small Magellanic Cloud #99088860
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The Small Magellanic Cloud is a small galaxy located outside Milky Way, 210,000 light-years away. Within this galaxy, the astronomer Herrietta Leavitt discovered at the beginning of the 1900s many variable stars, which were subsequently considered the appropriate instrument to measure the size of the Universe.Retouched colored image. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.