The star is known as SDSS J0715-7334. It is a red giant star in the halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The metallicity of ...

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A new study of super-fast-moving stars suggests that they were accelerated by a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door. This appears to be the closest supermassive black ...

Hubble’s latest image captures a glittering star cluster inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 160,000 light-years from Earth. This region, known as N11, is one of the galaxy’s ...

A star found in the Large Magellanic Cloud is remarkably unpolluted by heavier elements, suggesting it is descended from the ...

Astronomy James Webb and Hubble telescopes join forces to explore a cosmic nursery: Space photo of the week Astronomy Giant 'X' appears over Chile as 2 celestial beams of light cross: Space photo of ...

The most ‘pristine’ star in the universe discovered by astronomers - Red giant star J0715-7334 is 20,000 times purer than the ...

It may come down to a coin toss as to whether the Milky Way collides with the Andromeda Galaxy within 10 billion years. While scientists have previously reported that a convergence was certain, an ...

When scientists aimed the European Space Agency's X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, at two mysterious lights on the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, they discovered an unexpected source: two ...

To understand how the universe was formed and how we got here, ancient stars are some of the best objects to study — yet astronomers know surprisingly little about the conditions in which they were ...

The absence of observed supernovae in the Milky Way for 400 years refers to visual observations within the galaxy itself, excluding events in other galaxies like the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).