And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our ... to be getting pulled apart by the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, which itself neighbours the galaxy.

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud are at war, with the larger of these dwarf galaxies ripping the other ...

scientists examined the motions of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) to find it is being ripped apart by the gravitational influence of its larger counterpart, the Large Magellanic ...

These events, first identified in 2023, were observed in the Large and Small Magellanic ... images of two star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud. NGC 602, located approximately 200,000 ...

This is due to the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is tearing apart the smaller galaxy. The team identified and measured a total of around 7000 individual stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

Their findings suggest that the gravitational pull of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the SMC’s larger companion, may be tearing the smaller one apart. This discovery reveals a new pattern in ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The SMC is a dwarf galaxy located about 200,000 ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the Milky Way’s closest neighbors. It’s a small, irregular galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, and is an easy naked-eye object from the Southern ...

A Hubble telescope image shows the most detailed view of NGC 346 yet, a stellar nursery within the Small Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESA / NASA / A. Nota / P. Massey / E. Sabbi / C. Murray / M.