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Noticed a discrepancy in mass.

Noted a discrepancy in mass between the main description as '1/100th of the mass of the Milky Way' and the data box which says 1.38 x 10^11 or 13 billion solar masses - ~ 1/10th the mass of the Milky Way. My guess is that the real answer is 1.38 x 10^10 solar masses which fits with the size of the Small Magellanic cloud.. 90.250.164.236 (talk) 19:25, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mass of the Milky Way is about 10¹² M_☉, which is about 100 times 1.38×10¹⁰ M_☉. Lithopsian (talk) 19:32, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Came here to read about this after seeing ESA press release (indicating that Gaia measurements have raised estimates of the LMC mass to 10% of Milky Way). Press release lacks a citation, but this paper (Foote, 2023) opens with a list of papers that show various mass estimates in the 1-2 x 10^11 (10%) range. Willhsmit (talk) 11:08, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lead Tidying

... [1]: Sensibly, Hartung includes as constellations the Magellanic Clouds, though they are sited between Norma and Octans, where only Latin scholars will think to look for them

Count of stars

Other galaxies (e.g. Triangulum Galaxy) have "Number of stars" in their sidebar -- is this just not known for LMC? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Schnitzi (talk • contribs) 23:23, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like a fairly basic piece of information. Added now, at least in the infobox. Lithopsian (talk) 14:20, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]