Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

Zoom into the James Webb Space Telescope's view of a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud known as NGC 346.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a scene on the nebula's fringes where the super star cluster R136 resides. Near R136 ...

The team set their sights on the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way about 20,000 light-years from Earth.

A Hubble telescope image shows the most detailed view of NGC 346 yet, a stellar nursery within the Small Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESA / NASA / A. Nota / P. Massey / E. Sabbi / C. Murray / M. Zamani ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to the Milky Way — is being torn apart by its larger neighbor.

Scientists at Japan’s Kyushu University learned this, in collaboration with researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University, by studying the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy near the ...

Hubble’s latest portrait of the Tarantula Nebula reveals a turbulent star-making region far beyond the Milky Way. Located 160 ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called the Tarantula Nebula. Most of the nebulae Hubble images are in our galaxy, ...

Dual Directional Expansion of Classical Cepheids in the Small Magellanic Cloud Revealed by Gaia Data Release 3. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2025; 985 (1): L5 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/adce0b ...

Together with the Small Magellanic Cloud, it is one of the Milky Way 's largest satellite galaxies, and one of the few still actively forming stars.

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 ...