Milky Way Already Colliding with Magellanic Clouds!

Astronomers from CSIRO have recently discovered, with the help of radio telescopes at Parkes and Narrabri, that gas coming from the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds is penetrating through the material disk of the Milky Way right over to the other side. Such gas flow observations may eventual... [ read more >> ]

Artistic impression showing the interactions of our galaxy with the gas streaming from the Magellanic Clouds

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Image credits: John Rowe Animations

Artistic impression showing the interactions of our galaxy with the gas streaming from the Magellanic Clouds