For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way. The star WOH G64 is located a staggering 160 000 light-years from us.
In a remarkable discovery, astronomers have found a disc around a young star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy neighbouring ours. It’s the first time such a disc has ever been found outside our galaxy.
A new model suggests the Milky Way should have an additional 100 or so very faint satellite galaxies awaiting discovery.
Scientists have found what looks like an exceedingly small galaxy in orbit around our Milky Way. Named Hydrus 1, it’s located about 90,000 light-years from Earth, between the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds.
ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured this striking view of the nebula around the star cluster NGC 1929 within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. A colossal example of what astronomers call a superbubble dominates this stellar nursery. It is being carved by the winds from bright young stars and the shockwaves from supernova explosions.
