A nearby galaxy long treated as a stable cosmic reference is revealing a far more dynamic and turbulent history.
The James Webb Space Telescope captured imagery of dynamic star-forming region NCG 346 within the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC ...
Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, a small galaxy is in the middle of a dramatic makeover. It is losing its shape, its rotation, and possibly its future. And the culprit is its much larger ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers may have finally explained why the Small Magellanic Cloud isn’t spinning like it should. The cause: it’s still reeling ...
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 ...
Researchers have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, are moving in opposing directions along two distinct axes. They found that stars closer ...
In anticipation of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble is kicking off the celebrations with a new image of the star cluster NGC 346, featuring new data and ...
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 ...