The Large Magellanic Cloud is nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth. (Image credit: ESA/NASA/Hubble) The LMC is full of many of the types of objects we find in our own galaxy.

An international team of astronomers has discovered new structural and spectral details of SNR J0450.4−7050, a supernova ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...

(CN) — While all stars go out in a bang, some go out with two. For the first time, astronomers have recorded visual evidence ...

In a stunning first-ever image, astronomers have seen a star that died by exploding twice. They pointed the European Southern ...

An international team of astronomers has made groundbreaking observations of the supernova remnant (SNR) SNR J0450.4−7050 in ...

Observations of eight long-period, late-type eclipsing-binary systems composed of cool, giant stars are used to determine a distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud accurate to 2.2 per cent ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is the southern sky’s greatest celestial wonder. It is the Milky Way’s biggest satellite galaxy, just 160,000 light-years distant, and the fourth-largest ...

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The Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud are at war, with the larger of these dwarf galaxies ripping the other apart. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu.

The data showed that the most intense period of star formation happened between about 4 and 0.5 billion years ago, when dust and gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud turned into stars at rates of ...