Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

"We came across a group of outbursting variable stars exhibiting very characteristic triangle-shaped symmetrical outbursts ...

NASA welcomed the new year by releasing a series of 19 gorgeous images of spiral galaxies. Combining data from the JWST’s ...

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What it is: The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, two dwarf satellite galaxies of the Milky Way Where it is: 160,000 light-years away, in the constellations Dorado and Mensa ...

From the Andromeda Galaxy to the Magellanic clouds, check out these 7 vibrant images of galaxies nearest to the Milky Way ...

He even uses special tools to capture what he sees. The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud. Photo: Don Pettit His most recent images show the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds ...

Nasa Astronaut Don Pettit's picture shows thousands of stars as well as two nearby dwarf galaxies - known as the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.

Above that airglow are two seemingly distant galaxies: the Large Magellanic Cloud (left) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (right). In actuality, these dwarf satellite galaxies are the closest ...