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The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy. It is classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy. It has a diameter of about 7000 light-years and contains several hundred million stars. It has a total mass of approximately 7 billion times the mass of the Sun.Some speculate that the SMC was once a barred spiral galaxy that was disrupted by the Milky Way to become somewhat irregular.

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