Looming near the mighty sweep of the southern Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds resemble detached ... so brightly that when observed through a big observatory telescope, its light ...
Two Milky Way satellite galaxies, Small Magellanic Cloud and the Large Magellanic Cloud, collided a few millions years ago, according to a new study by University of Michigan astronomers.
In the astronomical field, the terms Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are widely used. They feature in thousands of peer-reviewed scientific articles, spawning even ...