Astronomer using Hubble discovers "young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small ...

Each week researchers from the Hubble Space Telescope share an image they have captured of a particular object or region in space. This week’s Hubble image shows the Small Magellanic Cloud, or SMC, ...

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

Astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU) have created the most detailed radio image of nearby dwarf galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, revealing secrets of how it formed and how it is ...

A recent Hubble Telescope image reveals the star-studded open cluster known as NGC 376. Scientists say it's nearly a miracle that the pristine image can retain star-making material in the first place, ...

Day 8 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar ...

Astronomers have turned the space observatory to focus on the NGC 346, a large star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to observe radiation from cosmic rays in two neighbouring galaxies, showing areas of star formation and echoes of past supernovae. The ...

A far infrared image of the Small Magellanic Cloud as observed by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory. Circles indicate the positions observed by the ALMA telescope, with the ...

Gaia’s view of the Milky Way’s neighboring galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered that Cepheid ...

A far infrared image of the Small Magellanic Cloud as observed by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory. Circles indicate the positions observed by the ALMA telescope, with the ...

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 ...