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Astronomers report the discovery of a rare nova super-remnant surrounding the recurrent nova LMCN 1971-08a in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This is the first nova super-remnant identified in the ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a cloudy starscape from an impressive star cluster. This ...

Hubble’s latest image captures a glittering star cluster inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 160,000 light-years from Earth. This region, known as N11, is one of the galaxy’s ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the field of stars that is NGC 1786. The globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster NGC 1786. (NASA Image) (NASA) – This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the field of stars that is NGC 1786. The ...

The Milky Way's satellite galaxies are less typical than previously thought. Most Milky Way-like galaxies have star-forming satellite galaxies, unlike our own. The Milky Way's unique satellite galaxy ...

A white dwarf star in the Large Magellanic Cloud exploded twice in a double-detonation supernova. Credit: ESO / Priyam Das et al. / Hubble / K. Noll et al. Astronomers have finally caught a dying star ...

Because I’m based in the northern hemisphere, my suggestions of what to look for in the skies can sometimes be skewed towards what we can see from that half of the planet. So, in this month’s column I ...

Hubble Unveils Galactic ‘Cotton Candy’ in the Large Magellanic Cloud Hubble’s dazzling new image reveals colorful gas and dust clouds in the LMC. Using five filters, it maps stellar nurseries and ...