What is "magellanic"

Usage examples of "magellanic".

There are two gates in this city tonight, either of which would permit you in one step to transfer from London to Ty Station, orbiting Aefor in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud.

More accurately, she was an Earther recruited by Sanduleans for the purpose of returning Abu al-Hawl to the Magellanic Clouds.

Anyway, the bigheads use everything they can get -- including a measure of how far the Magellanic clouds have rotated, and in which direction.

His Cantos had mentioned some plot by the warring AI TechnoCore to steal Old Earth-to spirit it away to either the Hercules Cluster or the Magellanic Clouds, the Cantos were inconsistent-but that was fantasy.

By 2365 Magellanic Itg ceased to use anything other than blackhawks in its transport fleet.

Thirty of the exowomb children were appointed to Valisk’s executive committee, which ran both the habitat and Magellanic Itg, while the remainder, along with the rapidly proliferating third generation, became blackhawk pilots.

The ship was in trailing orbit beyond a huge construction that orbited a star one hundred and fifty thousand light-years beyond the spiral arms of the Home Galaxy, close to the accretion disc of a vast black hole where the Large Magellanic Cloud had once been.

I have spent some time in that sector of the Lesser Magellanic Cloudnot by choice, of course.

He thought he remembered that the south celestial pole of Mars was somewhere just off the Milky Way toward the Large Magellanic Cloud, but he could never find it.

We are substantially closer to the Magellanic Clouds, so we must be nearer the southern celestial pole.

We are substantially closer to the magellanic clouds, so we must be nearer the southern celestial pole.

It was by studying the stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, all more or less at the same distance from us, that the American astronomer Henrietta Swann Levitt (1868-1921) first noted the connection between the luminosity of Cepheid variables and their periods.

There can't be any connections to the Core out here in the Magellanic Cloud.

It was almost certainly the first time any planet in the Greater Magellanic had heard the protest of collapsing molecules, though the technique had been a century out of date back in the Milky Way.

In one direction, the Milky Way Galaxy was frozen in majestic splendor, set off like a whirlpool of jewels by her satellites, the Greater and Lesser Magellanic Clouds, and blemished only by the irregularity of Sagittarius, a dwarf spheroidal galaxy in collision with the Milky Way, directly opposite the galactic core from Earth, and thus unseen through most of human history.