The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the N79 nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ...

"This could potentially change our understanding of the history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic ...

A team has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. Their findings suggest that the gravitational pull of ...

As they watched those stars, researchers noticed that they appeared to be getting pulled apart by the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, which itself neighbours the galaxy. “The stars in the SMC ...

Astronomers studying the Small Magellanic Cloud — a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from Earth — say it's showing signs of being pulled apart by the larger and more powerful Large Magellanic ...

What you wouldn’t know from looking at it, is that it’s being torn apart by another satellite, also visible to the naked eye, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In recent years, astronomers ...

An illustration shows a large galaxy ripping a smaller galaxy ... of the history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way." The new findings could help ...