The Large Magellanic Cloud is nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth. (Image credit: ESA/NASA/Hubble) The LMC is full of many of the types of objects we find in our own galaxy.

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered new structural and spectral details of SNR J0450.4−7050, a supernova ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

In a stunning first-ever image, astronomers have seen a star that died by exploding twice. They pointed the European Southern ...

A dwarf irregular galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the most stunning deep-sky treasures of the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the unaided eye as a soft glow ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud are at war, with the larger of these dwarf galaxies ripping the other apart. advertisement. Space.

Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...