Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy. It has a diameter of about 7,000 light-years. and contains several hundred million stars. It has a total mass of approximately 7 billion times the mass of our Sun. Some speculate that the SMC was once a barred spiral galaxy that was disrupted by the Milky Way to become somewhat irregular. It contains a central bar structure. 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.