Editing Small Magellanic Cloud (section)

==Mini Magellanic Cloud (MMC)==
It has been proposed by astrophysicists D. S. Mathewson, V. L. Ford, and N. Visvanathan that the SMC may, in fact, be split in two, with a smaller section of this galaxy behind the main part of the SMC (as seen from Earth's perspective), and separated by about 30,000 ly. They suggest the reason for this is due to a past interaction with the LMC that split the SMC, and that the two sections are still moving apart. They dubbed this smaller remnant the Mini Magellanic Cloud.<ref name="MathewsonFord1986">{{cite journal|last1=Mathewson|first1=D. S.|last2=Ford|first2=V. L.|last3=Visvanathan|first3=N.|title=The structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud|journal=The Astrophysical Journal|volume=301|date=1986|pages=664|issn=0004-637X|doi=10.1086/163932|bibcode = 1986ApJ...301..664M }}</ref><ref name="CrowlSarajedini2001">{{cite journal|last1=Crowl|first1=Hugh H.|display-authors=etal|title=The Line-of-Sight Depth of Populous Clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud|journal=The Astronomical Journal|volume=122|issue=1|date=2001|pages=220–231|issn=0004-6256|doi=10.1086/321128|arxiv=astro-ph/0104227v1|bibcode = 2001AJ....122..220C |s2cid=45263795}}</ref>

In 2023, it was reported that the SMC is indeed two separate structures with distinct stellar and gaseous chemical compositions, separated by around 5 kiloparsecs.<ref>{{cite journal|arxiv=2312.07750 |last1=Murray |first1=Claire E. |last2=Hasselquist |first2=Sten |last3=Peek |first3=Joshua E. G. |author4=Christina Willecke Lindberg |last5=Almeida |first5=Andres |last6=Choi |first6=Yumi |last7=Craig |first7=Jessica E. M. |last8=Denes |first8=Helga |last9=Dickey |first9=John M. |last10=Di Teodoro |first10=Enrico M. |last11=Federrath |first11=Christoph |last12=Gerrard |first12=Isabella A. |last13=Gibson |first13=Steven J. |last14=Leahy |first14=Denis |last15=Lee |first15=Min-Young |last16=Lynn |first16=Callum |author17=Yik Ki Ma |last18=Marchal |first18=Antoine |last19=McClure-Griffiths |first19=N. M. |last20=Nidever |first20=David |last21=Nguyen |first21=Hiep |last22=Pingel |first22=Nickolas M. |last23=Tarantino |first23=Elizabeth |last24=Uscanga |first24=Lucero |last25=van Loon |first25=Jacco Th. |title=A Galactic Eclipse: The Small Magellanic Cloud is Forming Stars in Two, Superimposed Systems |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |date=2023 |volume=962 |issue=2 |page=120 |doi=10.3847/1538-4357/ad1591 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2024ApJ...962..120M }}</ref>