NASA astronaut Don Pettit has taken a breathtaking long-exposure photograph of two dwarf galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, from the window of a SpaceX Crew ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way.

The Milky Way has two prominent satellite galaxies, called the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. (The Magellanic Clouds are visible on Earth only from the southern hemisphere; their existence was ...

In the astronomical field, the terms Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are widely used. They feature in thousands of peer-reviewed scientific articles, spawning even ...

This story appears in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Looming near the mighty sweep of the southern Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds resemble detached ...

These events, first identified in 2023, were observed in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. The millinovas are thought to occur when white dwarfs feed ...

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 ...

the Large and the Small Magellanic Clouds. This image is taken directly from the numerical simulations, however it has been modified slightly for aesthetics.

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

Hubble's image captures WR 25 and Tr16-244, two massive stars in the Trumpler 16 cluster within the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light-years away. This large Hubble mosaic combines images from Wide Field ...

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...