This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way's galactic neighbors, a ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, which is visible only from the Southern Hemisphere, has been caught in the crosshairs of the ...

A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a kaleidoscopic scene in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), captivating astronomers and skywatchers alike. Shared on May 12, 2025, this ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova remnant that had not been observed before." ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan were surprised by their study results, which they say are "indisputable." ...

The way that Hubble images are produced is similar to how the James Webb Space Telescope uses filters and combines these to create stunning pictures of otherwise invisible objects, a process which ...

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 ...

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Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, LMCN 1968-12a is the first recurrent nova outside our galaxy to have been studied in near-infrared light.

ABSTRACT.As part of an ongoing project to investigate the cluster formation and chemical evolution history in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), we have used the CTIO 0.9 m telescope to obtain CCD ...

These complex bidirectional movements along two different axes indicate that the SMC is being stretched by multiple external gravitational forces—its larger neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud ...