Astronomers have uncovered shocking evidence that one of the closest galaxies to our own is being torn to shreds by its neighbor. Located around 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Small Magellanic ...

A team led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring ...

A successful builder by day and traversing the sky by night, Isaac Roberts took the first clear photograph of Andromeda, the closest galaxy to our Milky Way.

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Astronomers at NASA and Pennsylvania State University have used NASA’s Swift satellite to create the most detailed ultraviolet light surveys ever of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two ...

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found that Markarian 231 (Mrk 231), the nearest galaxy to Earth that hosts a quasar, is powered by two central black holes furiously whirling about ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan shared new insights into the motion of massive stars in a nearby galaxy that could completely transform our understanding of galaxy evolution and interactions.

Velocities of massive star candidates within the SMC shown as vectors. The colors of the arrows represent the direction of motion. Relative to the LMC, located at the bottom left of the image, most ...

The colors of the arrows represent the direction of motion. Relative to the LMC, located at the bottom left of the image, most red arrows show movement towards the LMC, whereas most light blue arrows ...