The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a dwarf galaxy that is close to the Milky ... star in the LMC was Sanduleak -69° 202, which was a blue supergiant star that went supernova on Feb. 24, 1987 ...

Languages: English, Spanish Astronomers have spotted a pair of vast peacock-shaped gaseous clouds in a satellite galaxy of the Milky ... different velocities. The blue region in N159E-Papillon ...

The reason that this part of the sky is so target rich is because three or more bands — arms — of the galaxy overlap. “Or more” because, as is often the case with clouds, it’s often ...

A newly released stunning image of a distant spiral galaxy shows its features in resplendent shining gold and bright blue. The image ... star-birthing process is clouds of cool molecular gas ...

Scientists have found the biggest distant galaxy cluster ever seen, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile. Image: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/J.Hughes ...

(Phys.org) —A multi-year study of the Whirlpool galaxy (M51) has changed our understanding of giant molecular clouds, in which stars are born. The new study, which mapped 1,500 such clouds ...