September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... This pulse was found in archival data of the Small Magellanic Clouds taken in 2001 with the Parkes radio telescope in New...signal it can collect. Consequently, this means that it has a small field-of-view, while the inverse is true for a smaller dish ...
14 December 2016
Astronomers find a ring of new stars around the LMC
... only that, but the stars are being formed in an unlikely part of the galaxy. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC, respectively) are a pair of gas-rich galaxies that are satellites of the Milky Way...
14 September 2016
Gaia's first map hints at big things to come
... along the line of sight. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way can also...“this is only the beginning: we measured the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud to test the quality of the data, and we got a sneak...
08 February 2017
Bridge between the Magellanic Clouds discovered
...brightness and easy visibility in the night sky the Magellanic Clouds were discovered in antiquity, astronomers were unable to study... forms two openings on the satellite's periphery, small regions where the gravitational pull of the satellite ...
26 September 2016
A potentially disrupting satellite system around the LMC has been observed for the first time by astronomers
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite dwarf galaxy of the ...the Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, France, found within the Survey of the Magellanic Stellar History (SMASH), a very faint stellar system approximately 16 kilo parsecs...
20 September 2018
TESS finds its first exoplanet – a super-Earth 60 light years away
... the satellite relayed back is a stunning vista of the southern sky that includes both the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud, the bright star R Doradus and parts of a dozen constellations from Capricornus to Pictor. This swath of the sky...
