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

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 ...

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

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 artist's illustration depicts the HH 1177 system, located in a neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. The massive young star at the center pulls in material from a rotating disk ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud are at war, with the larger of these dwarf galaxies ripping the other apart. advertisement. Space.

Astronomy professor Mia de los Reyes is leading the charge to have Milky Way's closest galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud, renamed, arguing that slave-owning ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive black hole outside of our galaxy.

Astronomers believe that in the distant future—in about 2.4 billion years—the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Milky Way will merge into a single larger cluster, along with other larger ...

Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it ...

A dwarf irregular galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the most stunning deep-sky treasures of the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the unaided eye as a soft glow ...

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.