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.

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This stunning 527-megapixel composite reveals both visible and infrared views of young stars, ionized gas, and dust filaments ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Stars from the Large Magellanic Cloud would ricochet like pinballs, dislodging some of the Milky Way’s stars from their orbits. Our galaxy as a whole would survive, but some stars may be flung ...

The data showed that the most intense period of star formation happened between about 4 and 0.5 billion years ago, when dust and gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud turned into stars at rates of ...

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.