NGC 2419 Intergalactic Wanderer . ... The third is the remote globular star cluster NGC 2419 , at distance of nearly 300,000 light-years. NGC 2419 is sometimes called "the Intergalactic Wanderer", an appropriate title considering that the distance to the Milky Way's satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud , is only about 160,000 light-years. ... NGC 2419 may really have an extragalactic origin as, for example, the remains of a small galaxy captured and disrupted by the Milky Way. ...