From the Andromeda Galaxy to the Magellanic clouds, check out these 7 vibrant images of galaxies nearest to the Milky Way ...

Both the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Large Magellanic Cloud are dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky Way and are being steadily drawn toward our galaxy for a collision and ...

The Milky Way's known satellites harbor up to ten million stars each. The Small Magellanic Cloud holds some three billion stars, and the Large Cloud perhaps 30 billion. For another, the clouds don ...

NGC 2002 is an open star cluster that resides roughly 160,000 light-years away from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This Hubble image of a loosely bound ...

Nasa Astronaut Don Pettit's picture shows thousands of stars as well as two nearby dwarf galaxies - known as the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga. The Large Magellanic Cloud, also called the LMC, is one of the Milky ...

What it is: The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, two dwarf satellite galaxies of the Milky Way Where it is: 160,000 light-years away, in the constellations Dorado and Mensa ...

The globular cluster NGC 2005, featured in this Hubble image, is located about 750 light-years from the heart of the Large ...

This image from the James Webb Space Telescope features a bright H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This nebula, known as N79, is a region of ...

The star in question, WOH G64, resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy orbiting the Milky Way about 160,000 light years away. This red supergiant is thought to be one of the largest ...

One of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way almost got away with a theft! Astronomers have discovered that a Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way - is ...

Hubble captured a star-filled scene featuring the globular cluster ESO 520-21 (Palomar 6), located near the center of the Milky Way. The image features WR 25 and Tr16-244, two massive stars located in ...