Astronomers peering into the Large Magellanic Cloud have caught a white-dwarf crime scene in the act of giving up its secrets about how it exploded…twice. The remnants, catalogued as SNR 0509-67.5, ...

The data showed that the most intense period of star formation happened between about 4 and 0.5 billion years ago, when dust and gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud turned into stars at rates of ...

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 is located approximately 160,000 light-years from Earth. It's about one-twentieth as large as our galaxy in diameter and holds about one-tenth as many stars.

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 ...

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 ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. At the core of the Tarantula Nebula lies a young, giant star cluster called NGC 2070, ...

Even though the Large Magellanic Cloud is relatively close to us, at just 163,000 light-years from Earth, dust clouds obscure parts of the structure.

January 2–9, 2014: The Large Magellanic Cloud in Dorado is an excellent target for far-southern naked-eye observers, open cluster NGC 1664 in Auriga offers small-telescope owners nice views, and ...

The nebula is locatedin the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Wayorbiting roughly 200,000 light years away. TheVLT is composed of four 8.2-m (27-ft) ...