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The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...
ESA’s Herschel space observatory and NASA’s Spitzer space telescope joined forces to map out the temperatures of the Small Magellanic Cloud from a chilly -260°C to a relatively-warm -150°C.
This image is just a small part of the SMC. “The Small Magellanic Cloud contains hundreds of millions of stars, but this image focuses on just a small fraction of them,” Hubble scientists write.
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the staples of the southern sky and one of the closest dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way. The SMC and its big sister, the Large Magellanic Cloud ...
Researchers have imaged the Small Magellanic Cloud in three times more detail than ever before. The new view shows the tiny galaxy is quickly losing hydrogen — and with it, its ability to form ...
The ESA released the image on Tuesday. The two small patches of brown spots are the Large Megellanic Cloud (160,000 light-years away) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (200,000 light-years away).
The renaming effort for the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud is being led by Dr. Mia de los Reyes, an assistant professor of astronomy at Amherst College in Massachusetts, who ...
Studies tell us the Small Magellanic Cloud is about 200,000 light-years away, about 7,000 light-years across, and hosts several hundred million stars.
The European Southern Observatory has released an enormous 43,223 x 38,236 pixel view of one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbors – the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Due to its ...
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The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors. In fact, it was so bright that many navigators used this object to make their way across the oceans.
Astronomers have taken a dramatic new image of NGC 346, the brightest star-forming region in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, 210,000 light-years away towards the constellation ...