Proposed Names for the Magellanic Clouds The International Astronomical Union is yet to receive a petition for the renaming of the galaxies. However, a petition from around 50 individuals who ...

This story appears in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Looming near the mighty sweep of the southern Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds resemble detached ...

Hubble observes Galactic Encounter: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has recently captured the effects of a near-collision between the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), from the ...