Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system HH 1177 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESO ...

Some fast-moving stars within the Milky Way have been traced back to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In a preprint paper that has not yet completed peer review, the astronomers who demonstrated ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and is located around 160,000 light years away from our solar system. This ...

Star clusters are formed when gravity pulls young stars together, forcing them to orbit each other. A star cluster can ...

Hubble Space Telescope image of the colorful clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large ...

A red supergiant star appears to have changed in just a few years – an astronomical blink of an eye – which suggests it may ...

A long-lost cosmic explosion, buried within two decades of NASA's Chandra X-ray data, has finally been uncovered by ...

Rare X-ray flash XRT 200515 spotted in the Large Magellanic Cloud Scientists suggest a neutron star or magnetar as a possible source Future observations may reveal a new cosmic phenomenon ...

Additionally filamentary clouds tend to have faster velocities and at an increasing width relative to their columns' density, “consistent with the relationship observed in the [Large Magellanic ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting ...