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Hubble Telescope captures gorgeous new view of Milky Way's star-packed galactic neighbor (photo)
Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...
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Scientists discover smallest galaxy ever seen: 'It's like having a perfectly functional human being that's the size of a grain of rice'
"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...
Reuters on MSN25d
Fast-moving stars reveal supermassive black hole inside nearby galaxy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as ...
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That galaxy next door? It's home to a monster black hole
A new study of super-fast-moving stars suggests that they were accelerated by a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door. This appears to be the closest supermassive ...