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2 days ago · Astronomers have detected giant, magnetic stars outside the Milky Way for the first time. These infant stars in the Magellanic Clouds could reveal details of early stellar evolution.
4 days ago · Credit: NASA, ESA, A. James (STScI) For the first time, magnetic fields have been detected in three massive, hot stars in our neighboring galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. While ...
5 days ago · The binary star system VFTS 243 is located in the dwarf galaxy “Large Magellanic Cloud” in the periphery of the Milky Way. The Magellanic Clouds are satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. These dwarf galaxies, which orbit the galactic center, are only visible from the Southern Hemisphere.
4 days ago · Zoom into the James Webb Space Telescope's view of a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud known as NGC 346. Credit: Space.com | ESA/Webb, NASA, ESA, CSA, ESO, ESA/Hubble, Digitized...
1 day ago · It is now known that the nearest external galaxies are the Magellanic Clouds, two patchy irregular objects visible in the skies of the Southern Hemisphere. For years, most experts who regarded the Magellanic Clouds as portions of the Milky Way Galaxy system separated from the main stream could not study them because of their position.
- A galaxy is any of the systems of stars and interstellar matter that make up the universe. Many such assemblages are so enormous that they contain...
- Galaxies differ in shape, with variations resulting from how the systems were formed and subsequently evolved. Galaxies are extremely varied not on...
- Galaxy classification is based on the scheme proposed by the American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Hubble’s scheme is based on the optical appearance o...
- NGC 1302 is an example of the normal type of Sa galaxy, while NGC 4866 represents one with a small nucleus and arms consisting of thin dust lanes o...
May 21, 2024 · The two most famous dwarf galaxies for us earthlings are, of course, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, visible to the unaided eye in Earth’s Southern Hemisphere sky.
3 days ago · Additionally, we observed the massive contact binary Cl* NGC 346 SSN7 in the Small Magellanic Cloud to test the theoretical scenario that the origin of magnetic fields involves a merger event or a common envelope evolution.
