A team has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. Their findings suggest that the gravitational pull of ...
A huge explosion of cosmic gas has been spotted at the heart of a far-off galaxy. This enormous outburst, known as a "gas outflow," is around 20,000 light-years across, about one-fifth of the diameter ...
The colors of the arrows represent the direction of motion. Relative to the LMC, located at the bottom left of the image, most red arrows show movement towards the LMC, whereas most light blue arrows ...