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The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy in orbit around the Milky Way Galaxy. It contains several hundred million stars. At a distance of about 200,000 light-years, it is one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. It is located in the constellation, Tucana.
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