The Magellanic Clouds can only be seen from the southern hemisphere.
The lad goes to the Magellanic Clouds but can't go to the school he wants.
Anyway, the bigheads use everything they can get - including a measure of how far the Magellanic clouds have rotated, and in which direction.
In a dense field, such as the galactic center or the Magellanic clouds, many microlensing events per year could potentially be found.
The Magellanic Clouds' were, of course, moving steadily and with increasing velocity away from the home galaxy.
It is similar in structure and composition to the Small Magellanic Cloud.
He used this relationship to estimate the distance to the Small Magellanic Cloud.
They are heading in the general direction of the Magellanic Clouds at sublight speed.
"Magellanic Cloud - that's so far from here that we couldn't reach it in a dozen lifetimes, even with our sub-space drive."