04 January 2019
Merger with the LMC spells doom for our Solar System
... Durham University, UK, has predicted that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) might crash into the Milky Way setting off...of the more famous satellite galaxies are the Small and Large Magellanic clouds; the latter of which sits at a distance of about 50...
14 September 2016
Gaia's first map hints at big things to come
... of the sky where fewer stars are observed and dense clouds of interstellar gas and dust absorb starlight along the line... 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...
18 August 2021
New study sheds light on Solar System heavy metal problem
... author of the study published this week in Nature Astronomy. Located around 140 parsecs away, the Ophiuchus cloud complex is a haven of dense protostellar cores in various stages of star formation and protoplanetary disk development; aspects which...
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 Milky Way and...LMC clusters that have been captured from the SMC and that an interaction between the two Clouds could very well be the reason why SMASH 1 is living up to its namesake,...
07 September 2018
ANA/JAXA plan to revolutionise space with real-world Avatars
... lab design made up of three symbolic structures certainly looks the part and has been envisioned by CLOUDS Architecture Office (CLOUDS AO) in New York; a company that was awarded first place in NASA’s Centennial Challenge Mars Habitat Competition...
27 February 2017
Thirty years in the making - researchers show SN1987A in all of its glory
... as it blazed for several months following its discovery on 23rd February, 1987. Located in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, SN 1987A was one of the brightest exploding stars to be observed by astronomers in more than 400 years and ever...
