Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) losing its gas halo due to a close encounter with the Milky Way. The LMC’s halo, now just 50,000 light-years wide, has been reduced ...
If the Large Magellanic Cloud were not quite so massive, the Milky Way would have robbed it of any opportunity to form new ...
Hubble captures the aftermath of the Large Magellanic Cloud’s dramatic encounter with the Milky Way, revealing the loss of ...
Encounter Blew Away Most of Smaller Galaxy's Gaseous Halo In a dramatic tale of survival captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, one of our closest galactic neighbors, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) ...
In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.
Recent observations using Hubble have allowed astronomers to measure the size of the Large Magellanic Cloud's halo for the ...
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A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...
The LMC is a dwarf galaxy, relatively close to the Earth (in galactic terms) at around 160,000 light years away. That may ...
A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...