Small Magellanic Cloud News Today

For the first time, magnetic fields have been detected in three massive, hot stars in our neighboring galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. While magnetic massive stars have already been detected in our own galaxy, the discovery of magnetism in the Magellanic Clouds is especially important because these galaxies have a strong population of young massive stars. This provides a unique opportunity to study actively forming stars and the upper limit to the mass that a star can have and re...

Sparkly images of star clusters captured by NASA

Astronomers found an extremely metal-poor star in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It shows how different star-forming environments can be.

ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere

Scientists have long pondered the mechanisms behind the eventual demise of galaxies, with prevailing theories pointing to environmental factors such as supermassive black holes or stellar interactions.

Researchers have recently discovered dark galaxies, which are galaxies devoid of visible stars but filled with hydrogen gas. These galaxies challenge conventional views on galaxy formation and the role of dark matter.

New Images from James Webb Space Telescope Reveal Enigmatic Spiral Galaxies - World Report Now

A batch of newly released images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope show in remarkable detail 19 spiral galaxies residing relatively near our Milky Way, offering new clues on star formation as well as galactic structure and evolution.

A batch of newly released images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope shows in remarkable detail 19 spiral galaxies residing relatively near our Milky Way, offering new clues on star formation as well as galactic structure and evolution.

The images were made public on Monday by a team of scientists involved in a project called Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) that operates across several major astronomical observatories.