"This could potentially change our understanding of the history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way." Two dwarf galaxies are waging war in the vicinity of ...

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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 ...

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 ...

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

Astronomers report the discovery of a rare nova super-remnant surrounding the recurrent nova LMCN 1971-08a in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This is the first nova super-remnant identified in the ...

Astronomers have combined hundreds of thousands of Spitzer Space Telescope images into a map of the whole Large Magellanic Cloud. They see features throughout the galaxy in such sharp detail that they ...

A scene of jagged fiery peaks, turbulent magma-like clouds and fiercely hot bursts of bright light. Although this may be reminiscent of a raging fire or the heart of a volcano, it actually shows a ...

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 ...

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Two dwarf galaxies are waging war in the vicinity of our Milky Way and it looks like there is only one possible victor. Using tips from the star-tracking Gaia spacecraft, scientists examined the ...