Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 113. Not illustrated. Chapters: Large Magellanic Cloud, Dorado, Dorado Group, Ngc 1553, List of Stars in Dorado, Magellanic Stream, Alpha Doradus, R136, Tarantula Nebula, Ngc 1672, Ab Doradus, R Doradus, Ngc 1533, Gamma Doradus, Ngc 1566, Beta Doradus, S Doradus, He 0437-5439, Hd 30177 B, Eta Doradus, Hd 269810, Delta Doradus, Hd 28254, Lh54-425, Psr J0537-6910, Hd 28254 B, Hde 268835, Ngc 1850, Ngc 2080, Ngc 1872, Zeta Doradus, Hd 37974, R136b, N 180b, Macho-Lmc-5, Sgr 0525-66, Bb Doradus, Lha 120-N 157b, Theta Doradus. Excerpt: The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a nearby irregular galaxy, and is a satellite of the Milky Way. At a distance of slightly less than 50 kiloparsecs (160,000 light-years), the LMC is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way, with the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal ( 16 kiloparsecs) and Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy ( 12.9 kiloparsecs) lying closer to the center of the Milky Way. It has a mass equivalent to approximately 10 billion times the mass of our Sun (10 solar masses), making it roughly 1/10 as massive as the Milky Way, and a diameter of about 14,000 light-years. The LMC is the fourth largest galaxy in the Local Group, the first, second and third largest places being taken by Andromeda Galaxy (M31), our own Milky Way Galaxy, and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33), respectively. While the LMC is often considered an irregular type galaxy (the NASA Extragalactic Database lists the Hubble sequence type as Irr/SB(s)m), the LMC contains a very prominent bar in its center, suggesting that it may have previously been a barred spiral galaxy. The LMC's irregular appearance is possibly the result of tidal interactions with both the Milky Way, and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). It is visible as a faint "cloud" in the night sky of the southern hemisphere, straddling the border between the constellations of Dorado an...