There could be a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud hurling stars at the Milky Way
Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.
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Astronomers Capture First Clear Image of a Star Beyond the Milky Way – A Cosmic Breakthrough
Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...
XMM-Newton finds two stray supernova remnants
When the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of ...
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Young stars in the Milky Way's back yard challenge our understanding of how they form
An artist impression of young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Massive and low-mass stars appear within nebulous gas within which they are born. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/S.Dagnello ...
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Dancing in the Dark
Looming near the mighty sweep of the southern Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds ... The Large Cloud, for its part, is a star-making factory, full of freshly minted star clusters ...
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NGC 1858: Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year-old open star.
NGC 2002: In the middle of this Hubble Space Telescope image, a twinkling group of stars known as Globular star cluster NGC ... is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...