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Researchers have snapped the most detailed photo yet of the Small Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way's closest neighbouring galaxy.

A stunning image captured by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) and Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, shows one of the

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are two of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. They can be seen

The Magellanic Stream is a cosmic battle scar from an ancient game of tug-of-war, and it’s headed right for us.

The Magellanic Stream is a cosmic battle scar from an ancient game of tug-of-war, and it’s headed right for us.

"Not even light can escape such hollowing, this huge mass in a small space. Even the Milky Way with its open arms is said to have a black hole at its heart." -Susan B.A. Somers-Willett Our Milky Way is home to us all. With its hundreds of billions of stars, massive spiral arms, dust lanes, and orbiting globular clusters, it's no wonder that nearly everything we see in the night sky is contained within it.

Our galaxy is not alone. Swirling around the Milky Way are several smaller, dwarf galaxies — the biggest of which are the Small and Large Magellanic

A view of the gas in the Magellanic System as it would appear in the night sky. This image, taken directly from the numerical simulations, has been

A team of astronomers led by Alessio Mucciarelli of the University of Bologna in Italy has found evidence that the Large Magellanic Cloud is also a cannibal.

The Milky Way galaxy has a history of violence.