the galactic neighborhood that includes the Andromeda Galaxy and dozens of dwarf galaxies. But checking out our space ...

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully. Our galaxy's two closest neighbors are two dwarf galaxies known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and the Small ...

One of the brightest and most active star-forming regions in our galactic neighborhood—hosting some of the most massive stars known—has been has been revealed in a new image from the European ...

This is just a small part of the universe—less than 1% of the entire observable universe—but it is our galactic neighborhood. And it is good to know the geography of your neighborhood.

But spiral galaxies like ours are surprisingly rare in our galactic neighborhood, and for years, astronomers have wondered why since the 1960s. Now, they may finally have an answer, according to a ...

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Researchers observed the LMC's halo by using background light from 28 bright quasars, the brightest parts of active galactic nuclei, as "lighthouses" of sorts. This allowed them to see the halo's ...