NASA has released a breathtaking new image captured by the Hubble telescope, showcasing a portion of the Tarantula Nebula, a ...

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system ...

The Tarantula nebula was recently captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, where the Scylla program helped create the colored ...

Acknowledgement: Josh Lake Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space in a long and slow dance around our galaxy.

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 ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Astronomers have made the most detailed map of the star formation history of the Large Magellanic Cloud to date. This history of one ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is what Austin Powers might call a quasi galaxy, just one percent the Milky Way's size and orbiting it like a hanger-on. At a distance of 163,000 light-years from Earth ...

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 ...

This stunning nebula is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that measures about 14,000 light-years across. The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way.