The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

The vantage point at Cerro Pachón, with its dark skies and high-altitude clarity, enhances the richness of the image.

Two of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way — the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds — may have had a third companion, astronomers believe. Research published today describes how another “luminous” ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the N79 nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ...

WASHINGTON (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 named after ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Our sun and other stars form when a dense clump of interstellar gas and dust collapses under its own gravitational pull. Once a star is born at the center of such a ...

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A coalition of astronomers is pushing to rename the Milky Way’s closest neighboring galaxies, arguing that the Portuguese explorer they are named after was a “murderer” who had nothing to do with ...