When deep-sky observers contemplate the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the Milky Way's largest satellite galaxy, they immediately think of the Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070). And no wonder - this emission ...

Our most massive satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), has been the center of a heated debate in the astrophysics community over the last few years. That debate centers on whether this ...

The temperature difference is not subtle. One side of the Milky Way’s outer halo runs noticeably hotter than the other, a mismatch that has puzzled astronomers since it was measured. That imbalance ...

Two of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way — the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds — may have had a third companion, astronomers believe. Research published today describes how another “luminous” ...

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

Astronomers have combined hundreds of thousands of Spitzer Space Telescope images into a map of the whole Large Magellanic Cloud. They see features throughout the galaxy in such sharp detail that they ...