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Stories about: Magellanic Cloud

Magellanic Stream Larger and Older than Thought Scientists have recently determined that the Magellanic Stream, a gigantic cloud of gas flowing outwards from the Magellanic Cloud, is in fact older and larger than previously determined. The recent finding, researchers believe, could provide astronomers with fresh insight into the events that determined the formatio... 5 January 2010 16:01 GMT Echoes From the Past Seen From Earth By using the Chandra X-ray Space Observatory and the XMM-Newton Space Observatory, astronomers were able to observe a light echo originating from a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which was first observable from Earth nearly 400 years ago. The supernova remnant, dubbed SNR 0509-67.5, lies 160,000 l... 21 April 2008 08:27 GMT 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 eventually provide data that woul... 4 February 2008 10:56 GMT