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fossilesque to AstronomyEnglish · 2 years ago

New study shows Small Magellanic Cloud is actually two smaller galaxies

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New study shows Small Magellanic Cloud is actually two smaller galaxies

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fossilesque to AstronomyEnglish · 2 years ago
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A large international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has found evidence showing that the Small Magellanic Cloud is not a single galaxy—it is actually two, one behind the other. The group has written a paper describing their work and posted it to the arXiv preprint server.
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    Hmm. So now we should have Small Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud^2

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      Smaller Magellanic Cloud, and Smallest Magellanic Cloud

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