Magellanic Stream Mystery | Space Wallpaper

Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - 11:30 in Astronomy & Space

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky Way galaxy, as seen in this space wallpaper.

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