Similar to the
Large Magellanic Cloud, NGC 4490 is several times larger than its companion galaxy.
Surprisingly, they found no cluster in the
Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) with an age between 5 and 15 billion years....
According to their analysis, the central part of the neighboring galaxy, called the
Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), completes a rotation every 250 million years.
Crowther and collaborators examined massive stars in two clusters, one in the Milky Way and the other in the
Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
The discovery, made in the gigantic star-forming region 30 Doradus in the
Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, has 'far-reaching' consequences for our understanding of how stars transformed the pristine Universe into the one we live in today.
A bright new star had erupted in the
Large Magellanic Cloud, the largest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, 165,000 light-years distant.
An explosion of a massive star was detected in 1987 in our neighbouring galaxy, the
Large Magellanic Cloud, just 170,000 light-years away.
The longer arm of the False Cross points to the
Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
30 Doradus 016 is a refugee from the 30 Doradus star-forming region in the
Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
But because it's incredibly diffuse, Crater 2 is much fainter than those companions, 1/100 as luminous as Sagittarius and 1/10,000 as bright as the
Large Magellanic Cloud. The result appears in the July 1st Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.