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An open cluster of stars shines through misty, cocoon-like gas clouds in this Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 460.…

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies,…
This artist's concept shows the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, in the foreground as it passes through the gaseous halo…
This artist's concept illustrates the Large Magellanic Cloud's (LMC's) encounter with the Milky Way galaxy's gaseous halo. In the top…
This artist's concept shows a closeup of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf galaxy that is one of the…
A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing…
Researchers have used spectroscopic observations of ultraviolet light from quasars to detect and map the Magellanic Corona, a diffuse halo…
For billions of years, the Milky Way’s largest satellite galaxies – the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds – have followed…

The massive star cluster NGC 346, located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, has long intrigued astronomers with its unusual shape.…