English: Large Magellanic Cloud is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way 163,000 ly away - 14,000 ly diameter (fourth-largest in the Local Group after Andromeda, the Milky Way, and Triangulum) - It was a barred dwarf spiral galaxy before its arms were disrupted by tidal interactions from the SMC and the Milky Way - It holds the Tarantula Nebula, the most active star-forming region in the Local Group - Expected to collide with the Milky Way in 2.4 billion years -