Astronomers trace the Small Magellanic Cloud’s unusual stellar motions to a past cosmic encounter.
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors, is undergoing a transformation visible from the southern hemisphere. This change is due ...
Earth is not only orbiting the Sun it is also traveling through the Milky Way on an enormous galactic journey. In this video ...
A nearby galaxy is undergoing a major transformation, and astronomers are watching the process unfold in real time ...
The galaxy our planet inhabits is called the Milky Way for the simple reason that, as seen from our world, its impossible-to-count collection of stars looks like a band of milky white light. In all ...
Most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy) must be ...
Scientists believe this long stream of gas may have formed when several galaxies collided millions of years ago.