Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

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 ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James ... super star cluster in our neighboring galaxy. The LMC, a satellite galaxy of ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

That’s almost half the distance to Andromeda. This illustration shows the Milky Way galaxy's inner and outer halos. A halo is a spherical cloud of ... [+] stars surrounding a galaxy. Astronomers ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Astronomers have discovered a massive cloud of gas that's on a collision course with our home galaxy, the Milky Way. What will happen when it slams into our galaxy ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite of our Milky Way Galaxy, this region is a host to many burgeoning stars. N79 is a 1,630-light-year-wide region containing three distinct ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky ... One of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way almost got away with a theft! Astronomers have discovered that a Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - one of the closest ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC ... our neighboring galaxy. The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located ...