Hubble uncovers cosmic collision: When a galaxy grazed the Milky Way
1 month, 1 week ago

Hubble uncovers cosmic collision: When a galaxy grazed the Milky Way

India Today  

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled the remarkable survival story of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbours. This artist's concept illustrates the Large Magellanic Cloud's encounter with the Milky Way galaxy's gaseous halo. The LMC's close passage to the Milky Way has resulted in a phenomenon called ram-pressure stripping. The research team plans to further investigate the collision zone between the LMC's and Milky Way's halos, promising more insights into this cosmic survival story.

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Hubble discovers Milky Way's impact on large Magellanic cloud
1 month, 1 week ago

Hubble discovers Milky Way's impact on large Magellanic cloud

India TV News  

Hubble observes Galactic Encounter: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has recently captured the effects of a near-collision between the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud, from the neighbouring galaxy. Despite this, the Large Magellanic Cloud retained enough gas to form new stars. Future Research on Galactic Halos Upcoming studies will explore the collision regions of the Milky Way and LMC …

Hubble detects protective SHIELD defending a pair of dwarf galaxies
2 years, 2 months ago

Hubble detects protective SHIELD defending a pair of dwarf galaxies

Daily Mail  

The iconic Hubble Space Telescope has made numerous discoveries during its three decade-long career. Theory: Hubble may have found how the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are able to form stars despite leaving behind trails of gaseous debris. The system is surrounded by a protective shield of hot gas that prevents their gas supplies from being siphoned off by the …

Astronomers Find Relic From a Galaxy That Once Consumed a Smaller One
3 years, 1 month ago

Astronomers Find Relic From a Galaxy That Once Consumed a Smaller One

News 18  

Astronomers at the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy have found that a globular cluster NGC 2005, a spherical collection of stars tightly bound by gravity in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a smaller neighbouring galaxy to the Milky Way, is actually a relic of the merger of a smaller galaxy into the LMC. The globular cluster, which is located some 750 …

The best from the science journals: Two liquids of water
4 years ago

The best from the science journals: Two liquids of water

The Hindu  

Two liquids of water Published in Science Computer simulations have previously shown that deeply super cooled water can exist in two different liquid states: it can transition between a high- and low-density forms. Decoding corals Published in Science Advances By sequencing the genomes of 150 individual colonies of the same species of corals, researchers from Australia have tracked which genes …

NASA's HaloSat Satellite Shows How Recycled Gas from Stars Surrounds the Milky Way
4 years, 2 months ago

NASA's HaloSat Satellite Shows How Recycled Gas from Stars Surrounds the Milky Way

News 18  

Observations made by a small spacecraft called HaloSat have shown that the Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by a clumpy halo of hot gases that is continually being supplied with material ejected by birthing or dying stars. A halo is a large region filled with hot gas that surrounds a galaxy, also known as a “circumgalactic medium.” The heated gaseous …

NASA's Hubble Telescope Spots Giant Halo Around Andromeda Galaxy Almost Bumping into Milky Way
4 years, 3 months ago

NASA's Hubble Telescope Spots Giant Halo Around Andromeda Galaxy Almost Bumping into Milky Way

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Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have mapped the immense envelope of gas, called a halo, surrounding the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbour. This tenuous, nearly invisible halo of diffuse plasma extends 1.3 million light-years from the galaxy — about halfway to our Milky Way — and as far as two million light-years in some directions, said the …

Hubble Space Telescope maps giant halo around Andromeda galaxy
4 years, 3 months ago

Hubble Space Telescope maps giant halo around Andromeda galaxy

India TV News  

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have mapped the immense envelope of gas, called a halo, surrounding the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbour. This tenuous, nearly invisible halo of diffuse plasma extends 1.3 million light-years from the galaxy -- about halfway to our Milky Way -- and as far as two million light-years in some directions, said the …

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