The Milky Way is so big that, over billions of years, its mass has captured numerous dwarf galaxies, which contain no more ...

Instead of just a few Milky Way-lengths away, like the Magellanic Clouds, Hedgehog is 3.3 million light years from the ...

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history ... the most likely birthplace of these stars would have been a small dwarf galaxy, weighing no more than roughly 2 percent of the current mass ...

The Milky Way's system of small, orbiting satellite galaxies is quite unusual, a new 12-year study of other galaxies in the local universe has found. The Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA ...

The potential brown dwarfs are located at the edge of the SMC, a dwarf galaxy close to the Milky Way, in a young star cluster called NGC 602. NGC 602 is around 200,000 light-years from Earth.

Fastest Known Planetary System May Have Been Pushed by Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole ...

This summer, a dead star in a nearby galaxy flared back to life in an abnormally brilliant but brief nova, providing ...

Two Milky Way satellite galaxies ... or "wing," of the Small Magellanic Cloud breaking off from its dwarf galaxy. Sally Oey, University of Michigan professor of astronomy, and undergraduate ...

Pismis 24 is a small open star cluster located in the core of the NGC 6357 emission nebula, which is about 8,000 light-years ...

A rare, extremely luminous X-ray outburst has been observed in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is a close neighbor of our own Milky Way galaxy. The observations, made by the Neil ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the first brown dwarf star candidates outside the Milky Way. The European Space Agency (ESA) said that these candidates reside in the star cluster NGC 602 ...

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