Universe Today
The Early Universe May Have Had Giant Batteries of Dust
The First Close-Up Picture of Star Outside the Milky Way
Here's What We Know About Earth's Temporary Mini-Moon
New Study Suggests Black Holes Get their "Hair" from their Mothers
Gaze at New Pictures of the Sun from Solar Orbiter
Here's How to Weigh Gigantic Filaments of Dark Matter
How Could Astronauts Call for Help from the Moon?
There Was a 15 Minute Warning Before Tonga Volcano Exploded
Main Sequence and White Dwarf Binaries are Hiding in Plain Sight
What a Misplaced Meteorite Told Us About Mars
Uranus is Getting Colder and Now We Know Why
How Scientists Repurposed a Camera on ESA's Mars Express Mission
SpIRIT CubeSat Demonstrates a Operational Gamma and X-Ray Detector
Sun-Like Stars Around Black Holes: What Gives?
Starship's Booster (and Donald Trump) Make a Splash With Sixth Flight Test
The Strange Pulsar at the Center of the Crab Nebula
The Biggest Black Holes May Start From The Tiniest Seeds
China's Proposed Cargo Shuttle, the Haolong, Has Entered Development
Up to a Third of Stars Ate Some of their Planets
The Large Magellanic Cloud Survived its Closest Approach to the Milky Way
The Large Magellanic Cloud is the closest, brightest dwarf galaxy to the Milky Way—20 times bigger than the full Moon in the sky. Astronomers think that the LMC just completed its closest approach to the Milky Way, blowing away the spherical halo of gas surrounding it. Smaller galaxies would have shut down star formation, but the LMC has enough material to keep forming stars. New observations from Hubble have helped astronomers measure its halo structure.
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