Thursday 4 April 2013

Feast your eyes on the Small Magellanic Cloud

For the first time, astronomers detect the presence of X-rays being emitted from young stars outside of the Milky Way. (Credit: NASA/CXC/Univ.Potsdam/L.Oskinova et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Astronomers describe it as a "dwarf galaxy," but the Small Magellanic Cloud, which happens to be one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors, is entirely majestic.
crawled from : Cnet

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