Our closest neighboring galaxy may be being torn apart

Our Neighbouring Galaxy Is Being Torn Apart, Scientists Make Shocking Discovery

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy, located about 200,000 light-years away, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy is being torn apart, a new study has claimed. The findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series on Thursday (Apr 10), suggest that the gravitational pull of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the SMC's larger companion, might be tearing the smaller one apart. "When we first got this result, we suspected that…

Our closest neighboring galaxy may be being torn apart

A team led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring the Milky Way.