14 December 2016
Astronomers find a ring of new stars around the LMC
... This discovery suggests that the interaction between the two clouds and our Galaxy is strong enough to trigger recent ...complex ensemble of gaseous system; these include a bridge between the clouds – a site of star formation that links both the LMC ...
10 July 2017
First glimpse at how gravity effects star formation
... captured the effects of gravity on ammonia gas moving within the cloud to show how the swirling motion of gas aids in the... both in the UK, have observed SDC13 – a four filamentary cloud structure that emanates from a central core – to see how ...
31 January 2018
Surprise find of complex organic molecules in LMC
..., helping to jumpstart the development of life on our planet - and perhaps elsewhere. “Even though the Large Magellanic Cloud is one of our nearest galactic companions, we expect it should share some uncanny chemical similarity with distant, young...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... bright, coherent, millisecond duration radio pulse. This pulse was found in archival data of the Small Magellanic Clouds taken in 2001 with the Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia. The pulse, dubbed the...
03 October 2018
Newly discovered far-flung object supports Planet X existence
... fringes of the Solar System, but their distance make them difficult to find. "These so-called Inner Oort Cloud objects like 2015 TG387, 2012 VP113, and Sedna are isolated from most of the Solar System...
10 September 2021
Survey detects 461 Solar System objects not found before
... new “extreme” TNOs, four new Neptune Trojans, several new objects with high inclinations and an Oort cloud comet named after its discoverers; C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein). “The DES catalog represents a significant increase...