The stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud aren’t behaving the way they should. A cataclysmic collision with another nearby ...
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One of Milky Way's neighbors is still reeling from a collision that sent its stars into chaos
Astronomers trace the Small Magellanic Cloud’s unusual stellar motions to a past cosmic encounter.
A brief blaze of gamma and X-ray light that lit up Earth telescopes in November 2024 may have come from an unexpected source.
The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. A team had found a small, strange galaxy that appeared to ...
Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors, is undergoing a transformation visible from the southern hemisphere. This change is due ...
Black hole GW190412 has been caught speeding away from its birth site at about 112,000 miles per hour (180,000 kilometers per ...
Astronomers say they've spotted a collision between two planets that mirrors a catastrophe in our own solar system.
GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...
A powerful "gamma-ray burst" has been seen exploding from merging neutron stars hidden within a previously unknown mini-galaxy leftover from an ancient cosmic crash. The "collision within a ...
"We found a collision within a collision. The galaxy collision triggered a wave of star formation that, over hundreds of millions of years, led to the birth and eventual collision of these neutron ...
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