Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the ...

The open star cluster NGC 460 is located within a greater collection of nebulae and star clusters known as N83, within one of ...

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The results were obtained from observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud and may provide a new perspective on star formation throughout the history of the universe. In our Milky Way galaxy ...

Caption The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) galaxy is a striking feature of the southern sky even to the unaided eye. But visible-light telescopes cannot get a really clear view of what is in the ...

A stunning blue and white spiral spotted in skies across Europe late Monday was created by frozen fuel tumbling from a SpaceX rocket, according to weather forecasters and scientists. Say hello to ...

The SMC is close to the bigger Large Magellanic Cloud and is best seen from November ... stars — something the SMC has lacked due to its small size. Dwarf galaxies like the SMC are thought ...