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The Structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud

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A survey of the distribution of various types of object in the Small Magellanic Cloud is used to build up a picture of the stellar content of its dominant features and to reconstruct in broad outline the evolutionary history of this galaxy as a whole.

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Brück, M.T. (1982). The Structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud. In: Mariolopoulos, E.G., Theocaris, P.S., Mavridis, L.N. (eds) Compendium in Astronomy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7766-2_28

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