Holy One of Israel Christ the prophesied Savior it is written in the Holy King James Bible the word of the Lord according to Jewish prophet Isaiah 750 BC Before Christ Evangil Isaiah 41:11-17 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed & confounded: they shall be as nothing; then they that strive with thee shall perish. 12 Thou shalt seek them, yet shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing & as a thing of nought. 13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. 14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob & ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD & thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains & beat them small & shalt make the hills as chaff. 16 Thou shalt fan them & the wind shall carry them away & the whirlwind shall scatter them: & thou shalt rejoice in the LORD & shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. 17 When the poor & needy seek water yet there is none & their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. amen & amen The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a dwarf galaxy and satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs (163,000 light-years), the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal (c. 16 kiloparsecs or 52,000 light-years away) & the possible dwarf irregular galaxy called the Canis Major Overdensity. It is about 9.86 kiloparsecs (32,200 light-years) across has roughly one-hundredth the mass of the Milky Way, making it the fourth-largest galaxy in the Local Group after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way & the Triangulum Galaxy (M33).
The LMC is classified as a Magellanic spiral. It contain a stellar bar that is geometrically off-center, suggesting that it was once a barred dwarf spiral galaxy before its spiral arms were disrupted, likely by tidal interaction from the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) & the Milky Way's gravity. The LMC is predicted to merge with the Milky Way in approximately 2.4 billion years. With a declination of about −70°, the LMC is visible as a faint "cloud" from the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth & from as far north as 20° N. It straddle the constellation Dorado & Mensa & has an apparent length of about 10° to the naked eye, 20 times the Moon's diameter, from dark site away from light pollution.
History of observation Small part of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Both the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds have been easily visible for southern nighttime observers well back into prehistory. It has been claimed that the first known written mention of the Large Magellanic Cloud was by the Persian astronomer 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi Shirazi (later known in Europe as "Azophi"), which he referred to as Al Bakr, the White Ox, in his Book of Fixed Stars around 964 AD. However, this seem to be a misunderstanding of a reference to some stars south of Canopus which he admit he had not seen. The first confirmed recorded observation was in a letter written in 1502 by Amerigo Vespucci after his second voyage. He mentioned "three Canopi , two bright & one obscure"; "bright" refer to the two Magellanic Clouds "obscure" refer to the Coalsack. Constellation of Dorado: the LMC is the green circle at the south (bottom) of picture Ferdinand Magellan sighted the LMC on his voyage in 1519 & his writing brought it into common Western knowledge. The galaxy now bear his name. The galaxy & southern end of Dorado are in the current epoch at opposition on about 5 December when thus visible from sunset to sunrise from equatorial points such as Ecuador, the Congos, Uganda, Kenya and Indonesia & for part of the night in nearby months. Above about 28° south, such as most of Australia & South Africa, the galaxy is always sufficiently above the horizon to be considered properly circumpolar, thus during spring & autumn the cloud is also visible much of the night & the height of winter in June nearly coincide with closest proximity to the Sun's apparent position.
Measurement with the Hubble Space Telescope, announced in 2006, suggest the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds may be moving too quickly to be orbiting the Milky Way. Astronomers discovered a new black hole inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, NGC 1850 BH1, in November 2021 using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile. Astronomers claim its gravity is influenced by a nearby star, which is about five times the mass of the Sun. In March 2025, the Center for Astrophysics announced strong evidence for a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the second-closest beside Sagittarius A, with an estimated mass 600,000 times that of the Sun. Geometry ESO's VISTA image of the LMC The Large Magellanic Cloud has a prominent central bar & spiral arm. The central bar, with a radius of 6,900 light-years (2.13 kpc) & a position angle of about 121° seem to be warped so that the east & west end are nearer the Milky Way than the middle. In 2014, measurement from the Hubble Space Telescope made it possible to determine a rotation period of 250 million years. The LMC was long considered to be a planar galaxy that could be assumed to lie at a single distance from the Solar System. However, in 1986, Caldwell & Coulson found that field Cepheid variable in the northeast lie closer to the Milky Way than those in the southwest. From 2001 to 2002 this inclined geometry was confirmed by the same means, by core helium-burning red clump stars, & by the tip of the red giant branch. All three papers find an inclination of ~35°, where a face-on galaxy has an inclination of 0°. Further work on the structure of the LMC using the kinematics of carbon stars showed that the LMC's disk is both thick & flared, likely due to interaction with the SMC. Regarding the distribution of star clusters in the LMC, Schommer et al. measured velocity for ~80 clusters & found that the LMC's cluster system has kinematics consistent with the clusters moving in a disk-like distribution. This result are confirmed by Grocholski et al. who calculated distance to a sample of clusters & showed that the cluster system is distributed in the same plane as the field stars May the Holy Roman Catholic Church be blessed by God the Father God the Son & God the Holy Spirit Hallelujah Hallelujah Blessed be the word of the Lord for Christ is risen Hallelujah Hallelujah peace be still in Nomine Patris et FiLii et Spiritus Sancti amen
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