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A galaxy next door is transforming, and astronomers can see it happening
- March 16, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere, and bound to our galaxy by gravity, alongside its companion, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). All three galaxies have been interacting for hundreds of millions of years.
Originally published at Phys.org