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After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...
An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...
Scientists made the claim after analysing the data collected by the European Space Agency's recently retired Gaia spacecraft.
"This could potentially change our understanding of the history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic ...
A team has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. Their findings suggest that the gravitational pull of ...
Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...
The galaxy next to ours might be getting torn apart, a study has suggested. The Small Magellanic Cloud, or SMC – a relatively ...
The discovery was made by precisely tracking the motion of 21 stars located on the outskirts of the Milky Way. These stars ...