Science news articles about 'small magellanic cloud'

... is the brightest star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud, an irregular dwarf galaxy that orbits the ... stars ate away at the surrounding dusty cloud, triggering gas to expand and create shock ...

... 18 ULP cepheids from the literature. Each was located in a nearby galaxy, such as the Small Magellanic Cloud. The distances to these nearby galaxies are well known, so the astronomers used that ...

... as SNR 0104-72.3 (SNR 0104 for short), is in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way. Astronomers think that SNR 0104 is the remains of a so- ...

... Way at the hands of its satellite galaxies -- the most massive of which are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds -- and the origin of its puffy edges, which astronomers have seen elsewhere in the ...