A view of the Mekong River bordering Thailand and Laos is seen from the Thai side in Nong Khai, Thailand, on Oct 29, 2019. The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Mechanism has yielded fruitful results since it was established in 2016 by Lancang-Mekong countries, an official with China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. China initiated the LMC Special Fund in 2016 with the …
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 …
CNN — Our large galaxy, the Milky Way, is orbited by more than 50 other, smaller galaxies. The Large Magellanic Cloud will catastrophically collide with the Milky Way in 2 billion years, according to a study published January in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. But the merger between the LMC and the Milky Way has begun, and …
