The aurora in early October followed by the appearance of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS the following week had me thinking about the rare events we observe in astronomy.
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a small galaxy, just a tenth of the Milky Way’s mass. It is about 160,000 light years away, which is remarkably close in cosmic terms. In the southern hemisphere it spans ...
Encounter Blew Away Most of Smaller Galaxy's Gaseous Halo In a dramatic tale of survival captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, one of our closest galactic neighbors, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) ...