Hubble's image captures WR 25 and Tr16-244, two massive stars in the Trumpler 16 cluster within the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light-years away. This large Hubble mosaic combines images from Wide Field ...
This story appears in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Looming near the mighty sweep of the southern Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds resemble detached ...
According to traditional wisdom, smaller galaxies such as the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud may have fewer opportunities to attract mass and merge with smaller systems, including other dwarf ...