The Large Magellanic Cloud, which is visible only from the Southern Hemisphere, has been caught in the crosshairs of the ...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small ...

A recent image captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope offers a dazzling view of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), visible ...

The Hubble Space Telescope recently celebrated its 35th anniversary in space. The Telescope has been operating for over three ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way's galactic neighbors, a ...

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 ...

The Milky Way's known satellites harbor up to ten million stars each. The Small Magellanic Cloud holds some three billion stars, and the Large Cloud perhaps 30 billion. For another, the clouds don ...

Researchers at the Institute for Scientific Research study the infrared properties of evolved stars and star-forming regions in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, such as the Large and Small ...

ABSTRACT We have derived far‐ultraviolet extinction curves for stars in the Galaxy, LMC, and SMC from spectra of pairs of stars observed with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) ...

The LMC is one of many dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way, but it's one of only two that are visible to the naked eye. The other is the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), which can be seen close ...

Researchers have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, are moving in opposing directions along two distinct axes. They found that stars closer ...