The Magellanic Stream is a cosmic battle scar from an ancient game of tug-of-war, and it’s headed right for us. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky Way Galaxy. The ...

A river of hydrogen gas flows outward from the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two dwarf galaxies located in the outskirts of the Milky Way. The contents of this river, called the Magellanic Stream ...

MADISON, Wis. — Our galaxy is not alone. Swirling around the Milky Way are several smaller, dwarf galaxies — the biggest of which are the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, visible in the night sky of ...

Our galaxy is not alone. Swirling around the Milky Way are several smaller, dwarf galaxies — the biggest of which are the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, visible in the night sky of the Southern ...

(Nanowerk News) Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky ...

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

The Magellanic Stream is a cosmic battle scar from an ancient game of tug-of-war, and it’s headed right for us. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

A view of the gas in the Magellanic System as it would appear in the night sky. This image, taken directly from the numerical simulations, has been modified slightly for aesthetics. CREDIT COLIN LEGG ...

For decades, scientists were at a loss to explain the source of the so-called Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas discovered in the early 1970s that extends nearly halfway around the Milky Way.

Astronomers have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky Way galaxy. New Hubble observations reveal that most ...

Sept. 9 (UPI) --Billions of years ago, a pair of dwarf galaxies known as the Magellanic Clouds were pulled into orbit around the Milky Way. Along the way, the Milky Way stripped a massive stream of ...