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Should We Rename Halley’s Comet? It’s Been Suggested, But We Like His ChancesWhen Halley's comet was recorded in the Bayeaux Tapestry, one monk thought he recognized it, but that doesn't mean it should bear his name

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Should We Rename Halley’s Comet? It’s Been Suggested, But We Like His ChancesWhen Halley's comet was recorded in the Bayeaux Tapestry, one monk thought he recognized it, but that doesn't mean it should bear his name
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Should We Rename Halley’s Comet? It’s Been Suggested, But We Like His Chances

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Massive Magnetic Stars Detected Outside The Milky Way For The First TimeNGC346 is the most massive star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The low metal content in the small galaxy provides insight into conditions earlier in the universe's evolution.

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Massive Magnetic Stars Detected Outside The Milky Way For The First TimeNGC346 is the most massive star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The low metal content in the small galaxy provides insight into conditions earlier in the universe's evolution.
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Massive Magnetic Stars Detected Outside The Milky Way For The First Time

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Red Giants With Deep Voices Could Resolve Cosmology’s ConfusionThis image of the Large Magellanic Clouds shows the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula, but also how many red giant stars the nearby galaxy has.

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Red Giants With Deep Voices Could Resolve Cosmology’s ConfusionThis image of the Large Magellanic Clouds shows the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula, but also how many red giant stars the nearby galaxy has.
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Red Giants With Deep Voices Could Resolve Cosmology’s Confusion

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Notorious Cosmic Object Is Actually Two Galaxies In A Trench CoatThe SMC is a big cloudy collection of stars. Beyond the SMC itself this very wide-field image reveals many background galaxies and several star clusters, including the very bright 47 Tucanae globular cluster at the right of the picture.

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Notorious Cosmic Object Is Actually Two Galaxies In A Trench CoatThe SMC is a big cloudy collection of stars. Beyond the SMC itself this very wide-field image reveals many background galaxies and several star clusters, including the very bright 47 Tucanae globular cluster at the right of the picture.
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Notorious Cosmic Object Is Actually Two Galaxies In A Trench Coat

clock-iconDecember 18, 2023
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It’s Time The Magellanic Clouds Are Renamed, Astronomers SayHanging over the site are the prominent Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, visible only in the southern sky. These two irregular dwarf galaxies are in the Local Group and so are companion galaxies to our own galaxy, the Milky Way

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It’s Time The Magellanic Clouds Are Renamed, Astronomers SayHanging over the site are the prominent Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, visible only in the southern sky. These two irregular dwarf galaxies are in the Local Group and so are companion galaxies to our own galaxy, the Milky Way
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It’s Time The Magellanic Clouds Are Renamed, Astronomers Say

clock-iconOctober 12, 2023
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There Was Once Another Galaxy Orbiting Ours - So Where Did It Go?article image

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There Was Once Another Galaxy Orbiting Ours - So Where Did It Go?article image
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There Was Once Another Galaxy Orbiting Ours - So Where Did It Go?

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Bridge Linking Magellanic Clouds Has Magnetic Fieldarticle image

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Bridge Linking Magellanic Clouds Has Magnetic Fieldarticle image
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Bridge Linking Magellanic Clouds Has Magnetic Field

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New Stars Born at Milky Way's Edgearticle image

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New Stars Born at Milky Way's Edgearticle image
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New Stars Born at Milky Way's Edge

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