Also known as SMC
irregular galaxy, satellite galaxy of the Milky Way
The Small Magellanic Cloud is an irregular galaxy that orbits our Milky Way as one of its satellite galaxies. It matters to astronomers because studying it helps us understand galaxy formation and evolution, as well as the structure and history of our own galactic neighborhood.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).