A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to ...

From the Andromeda Galaxy to the Magellanic clouds, check out these 7 vibrant images of galaxies nearest to the Milky Way ...

NGC 376: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a small portion of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC).

"We came across a group of outbursting variable stars exhibiting very characteristic triangle-shaped symmetrical outbursts ...

From the moment it unfurled its distinctive hexagonal mirrors in early 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has treated the ...

What it is: The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, two dwarf satellite galaxies of the Milky Way Where it is: 160,000 light-years away, in the constellations Dorado and Mensa ...

Until now! The newly imaged star, WOH G64, is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. Astronomers have known this star for decades and have fittingly ...

Nasa Astronaut Don Pettit's picture shows thousands of stars as well as two nearby dwarf galaxies - known as the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.

He even uses special tools to capture what he sees. The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud. Photo: Don Pettit His most recent images show the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds ...

Above that airglow are two seemingly distant galaxies: the Large Magellanic Cloud (left) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (right). In actuality, these dwarf satellite galaxies are the closest ...