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Noticed a discrepancy in mass.
[edit]Noted a discrepancy in mass between the main description as '1/100th of the mass of the Milky Way' and the data box which says 1.38 x 10^11 or 13 billion solar masses - ~ 1/10th the mass of the Milky Way. My guess is that the real answer is 1.38 x 10^10 solar masses which fits with the size of the Small Magellanic cloud.. 90.250.164.236 (talk) 19:25, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- Mass of the Milky Way is about 1012 M☉, which is about 100 times 1.38×1010 M☉. Lithopsian (talk) 19:32, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- Came here to read about this after seeing ESA press release (indicating that Gaia measurements have raised estimates of the LMC mass to 10% of Milky Way). Press release lacks a citation, but this paper (Foote, 2023) opens with a list of papers that show various mass estimates in the 1-2 x 10^11 (10%) range. Willhsmit (talk) 11:08, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
Lead Tidying
[edit]... [1]: Sensibly, Hartung includes as constellations the Magellanic Clouds, though they are sited between Norma and Octans, where only Latin scholars will think to look for them
Count of stars
[edit]Other galaxies (e.g. Triangulum Galaxy) have "Number of stars" in their sidebar -- is this just not known for LMC? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Schnitzi (talk • contribs) 23:23, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
- Seems like a fairly basic piece of information. Added now, at least in the infobox. Lithopsian (talk) 14:20, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
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