Milky Way strips LMC's gas halo with ram pressure. Hubble captures dramatic interaction between galaxies. LMC retains enough gas for new star formation.

Yao-Yuan Mao, with images from the DESI Legacy Surveys Sky Viewer. For years, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. But new research ...

which were previously thought to reside within our Milky Way galaxy, were located outside it. These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies, the closest large galaxies to our ...

"The LMC is a survivor." In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully. Our galaxy's two closest neighbors are two dwarf galaxies known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC ...

Oct. 7, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as orderly as present-day galaxies, but we see it as it ...

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though Earth, and even the solar system that it belongs to, is infinite.

"For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way." Astronomers have captured a "zoomed-in" image of a star outside the Milky ...

Shapley used the period-luminosity relationship to estimate distances to other Cepheids across the Milky Way. This is how Shapley reached his estimate for our galaxy's size. But, in order for ...

While space is often thought of as a quiet, eerie place of stillness, a dramatic saga is unfolding on the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is serving as an eyewitness ...

With this definition, the outer boundary of the Milky Way would go out much further than previously understood. In fact, the ...

11/27/2024 November 27, 2024 The name for our galaxy comes from the ancient Greek words for ‘milk’ or ‘milky’. They could only see it as a bright band of light in the night sky. This ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. For the first time, astronomers have imaged a star located outside the Milky Way galaxy.