The universe is huge, yet astronomers have looked at a few parts of the night sky over ... years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space ...

KW Sagittarii: It is one of the largest stars in the Milky Way, with a radius 100 times larger than the sun. It is located about 10,000 light-years from the sun. R136a1: It is a star in the Tarantula ...

Astronomers have long considered it inevitable that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the neighboring galaxy ...

they lie close together in the night sky), and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which is a satellite of the Milky Way that is about 160,000 light-years away. These four dominate the Local Group.

This massive star resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. KY Cygni ranks 4th, boasting a radius 200 times bigger than our sun. This red supergiant resides in ...

The Small Magellanic ... nearby in the sky, the Large Magellanic Cloud, about twice the size of the Small Magellanic Cloud.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky ... star exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf galaxy that orbits our Milky Way galaxy. The LMC can be easily ...

Andromeda would also gradually become a dominant, imposing feature in our night ... Milky Way and Andromeda inhabit a "local group" of galaxies, and two in particular (M33 and the Large Magellanic ...

From a solar eclipse to a dolphin-like nebula, these winning shots by astrophotographers from around the world depict the ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky ... see the galactic center of the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds in regions of the sky you just can’t see from home ...

Whether you want to see the northern lights or a meteor shower, astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi gives tips on stargazing from a ...