Hubble’s dazzling new image reveals colorful gas and dust clouds in the LMC. Using five filters, it maps stellar nurseries and shows how massive stars shape galaxies.

This view of dusty gas clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud is possible thanks to Hubble's cameras, such as the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) that collected the observations for this image. WFC3 ...

Astronomers discovered the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy, located 200,000 light-years away, has stars moving in two opposing directions.

Technological advances do not leave the study of space exempt. Thanks to the possibilities offered by evolution, devices such as telescopes are improved as never before, and resear ...

Dusty gas clouds sparkle in the Large Magellanic Cloud. What might look like sparkling wisps of candy floss, or cotton candy, are dusty gas clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy ...

Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way's galactic ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A sparkling cloudscape is revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope, which used its instruments ...

This feature marks the central disk of our home galaxy seen edge on. Large Magellanic Cloud: This vibrant image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite ...

the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in one direction and another, currently unknown mechanism in the other. The findings were published in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters. This study is ...

These complex bidirectional movements along two different axes indicate that the SMC is being stretched by multiple external gravitational forces—its larger neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud ...