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

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.

Evidence of Galactic Interaction in the Small Magellanic Cloud Probed by Gaia-selected Massive Star Candidates. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series , 2025; 277 (2): 62 DOI: 10.3847/1538 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

We often think of the Sun as incredibly huge, and it is. In fact, you could fit more than a million Earths inside it. But ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is potentially being torn apart by the gravitational pull of its larger neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Observations ...

The new image of a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud combines data from different wavelengths to provide this highly-detailed photo. | Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Nota ...

This is due to the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is tearing apart the smaller galaxy. The team identified and measured a total of around 7000 individual stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

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 ...

Alfredo (he/him) has a PhD in Astrophysics on galaxy evolution and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces. If you are in the Southern Hemisphere, you can see the Small Magellanic ...