The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...
New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...
From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...
The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.
New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...
Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...
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Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...
What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...
Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...
A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...