14 December 2016
Astronomers find a ring of new stars around the LMC
... in an unlikely part of the galaxy. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC, respectively) are a pair of gas-rich... LMC and SMC and was detected as early as 1957, the Magellanic stream, a wide filament of neutral gas that spans over a 100...
October 2016
The dwarf galaxy problem
...’s cloud and is moving with the same velocity, so this rationale fits with the data. However, the Magellanic stream is very sparse in this area of the sky and it is only consists of many small fragmented blobs of hydrogen. Both...
