The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system ...

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

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

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and Parkes 64-m telescope, an international team of astronomers has ...

Named after the explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who documented them during his voyage in the 16th century, they consist of the ...

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 ...

In recent years, astronomers have been able to study the motion of the stars in the galaxy with outstanding precision. And ...

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

More information: Rami Z. E. Alsaberi et al, A New Radio Continuum Study of the Large Magellanic Cloud Supernova Remnant MC SNR J0519-6902, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.11746 ...

A quiet neighbour of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), appears to be falling apart. And scientists say they didn’t see it coming.