Although Wiki doesn't say, I think both of these dwarf satellite galaxies contain a few 10s of billions of stars apiece, as opposed to roughly 200-300 billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.
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Although Wiki doesn't say, I think both of these dwarf satellite galaxies contain a few 10s of billions of stars apiece, as opposed to roughly 200-300 billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.
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"The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a nearby galaxy, and a satellite of the Milky Way.[5] At a distance of 50 kiloparsecs (≈163,000 light-years),[6][7][8][2] the LMC is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way, with the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal (~ 16 kiloparsecs) and the putative Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy (~ 12.9 kiloparsecs, though its status as a galaxy is under dispute) lying closer to the center of the Milky Way. The LMC has a diameter of about 14,000 light-years (~ 4.3 kpc) and a mass approximately 10 billion times the mass of the Sun (1010 solar masses), making it roughly 1/100 as massive as the Milky Way.[3] The LMC is the fourth largest galaxy in the Local Group, after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way, and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33)."--Wikipedia
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"The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way.[4] It is classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy. It has a diameter of about 7,000 light-years,[5] contains several hundred million stars,[6] and has a total mass of approximately 7 billion times the mass of the Sun.[7] The SMC contains a central bar structure and it is speculated that it was once a barred spiral galaxy that was disrupted by the Milky Way to become somewhat irregular.[8] At a distance of about 200,000 light-years, it is one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. It is also one of the most distant objects that can be seen with the naked eye."--Wikipepedia
Thanks ETL.