Large Magellanic Cloud

The Milky Way is a disk galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars. A new study indicates it underwent a burst of vigorous star formation that peaked about 2 billion years ago. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech)
The Milky Way stole a lot of its satellite galaxies from another small galaxy
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Reassessing an irregular spiral: A spectacular image of the Large Magellanic Cloud
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The Tarantula Nebula in infrared isn’t quite as showy as it is in visible light, but it’s still impressive. Credit: ESO/VMC Survey
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'Amateur' astronomers create an incredible 1000+ hour image of a galactic neighbor
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Apr 24, 2019
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The Tarantula Nebula is a sprawling gas cloud in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and one of the largest star-forming regions in the local Universe. Credit: Jean Claude Canonne, Philippe Bernhard, Didier Chaplain, Nicolas Outters, and Laurent Bourgon
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The imperfect perfection of the star cluster NGC 1898
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Mar 11, 2019
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A close-up of the reddish splotch in the globular cluster NGC 1898. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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