Large Magellanic Cloud
The Milky Way has Trapped the Large Magellanic Cloud With its Gravity. What Comes Next?
Our galaxy’s largest nearby companion is the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf galaxy visible to the naked eye in…
Hypervelocity Stars Teach us About Black Holes and Supernovae
A new study shows how hypervelocity stars could teach us more about the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the…
Hubble’s New View of the Tarantula Nebula
The Tarantula Nebula, also called 30 Doradus, is the brightest star-forming region in our part of the galaxy. It's in…
Hubble Spots Two Open Clusters. One is Also an Emission Nebula
Open star clusters are groups of stars in loosely-bound gravitational associations. The stars are further apart than the stars in…
A Totally new View of the Large Magellanic Cloud (and more!) From Retired Telescopes
ESA and NASA dusted off some old data from four retired space telescopes and combined forces to reveal new images…
Webb is Almost Ready. There’s One Last Thing To Do
The James Webb Space Telescope is now in the final phase of commissioning as it readies for science observations. Of…
An Incredible View Into the Heart of the Small Magellanic Cloud
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is over 200,000 light-years away, yet it's still one of our galaxy's closest neighbours in…
A Black Hole has been Found Lurking Just Outside the Milky Way
Astronomers have found a smaller, stellar-mass black hole lurking in a nearby satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. The…
The Large Magellanic Cloud Stole one of its Globular Clusters
Astronomers have known for years that galaxies are cannibalistic. Massive galaxies like our own Milky Way have gained mass by…
New All-Sky Map of the Milky Way’s Galactic Halo
The outer reaches of the Milky Way galaxy are a different place. Stars are much harder to come by, with…