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n. - A large faint constellation in the southern hemisphere containing most of the Small Magellanic Cloud.

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  • Northrop Grumman came calling in summer 2005, and Lukaczyk says it has already deployed Tucana technology.
  • NGC 346 is located in the constellation Tucana (the Toucan) and spans approximately 200 light-years.
  • Tucana, spanning 3o across in the night sky, lying some 20 degrees to the east of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
  • A ground-based telescope image (on the left) shows the entire crowded core of 47 Tucanae, located 15,000 light-years away in the constellation Tucana.
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