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Hubble’s dazzling new image reveals colorful gas and dust clouds in the LMC. Using five filters, it maps stellar nurseries ...
Astronomers discovered the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy, located 200,000 light-years away, has stars moving in two opposing directions.
The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.
New research shows that there's a 50% chance that the Milky Way and its nearest major galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy ...
The most recent nearby supernova, SN 1987A, was in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Milky Way’s youngest known supernova is ...
A recent paper reveals we're almost certainly going to collide with a galaxy in the next couple billion years, but it's not ...
"The fact that there is only around a 50-50 chance of a merger was very surprising." ...
With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to ...
The Hubble constant, a set number that connects a galaxy’s speed to its distance from Earth and tells us how fast the ...
Technological advances do not leave the study of space exempt. Thanks to the possibilities offered by evolution, devices such as telescopes are improved as never before, and resear ...
Astronomers have believed for decades that the Milky Way is on a collision course with our nearest big neighbor, Andromeda.