Click here for full resolution image The Small Magellanic Cloud is a frantic star birth site. This is better seen by the ratio of the mass of neutral Hydrogen (also called HI) to the luminosity of the galaxy in blue light. This ratio is, for the Milky Way, about 0.1. For the LMC, it is 0.3 … Continue reading NGC 292 and NGC 104. The SMC Landscape