This time, the focus is on the remains of a star that exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the ...

"This could potentially change our understanding of the history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

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

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

Led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara, the team has discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, may be getting torn apart by the gravitation pull of ...

In recent years, astronomers have been able to study the motion of the stars in the galaxy with outstanding precision. And ...

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and Parkes 64-m telescope, an international team of astronomers has ...

Named after the explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who documented them during his voyage in the 16th century, they consist of the ...

A quiet neighbour of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), appears to be falling apart. And scientists say they didn’t see it coming.

These events, first identified in 2023, were observed in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. The millinovas are thought to occur when white dwarfs feed ...

An illustration shows a large galaxy ripping a smaller galaxy ... history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way." The new findings could help scientists ...