Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...
Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.
Although the telescope is just getting started on its mission, it has already delivered some impressive snapshots of the dark ...
At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and named after Portuguese explorer ...
“Half of them tracked through our galactic center, and then the other half went to our nearest galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.” “That was a big aha moment for us, of like ...
The nearest galaxy of comparable mass to the Milky Way beyond Andromeda is M81, at nearly 12 million light-years. This bird's-eye view of Andromeda's satellite system allows us to decipher what ...