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1 day ago

Something extremely weird is happening to our galactic neighbor. Scientists think they know why

The Small Magellanic Cloud's unusually slow stellar rotation results from a hundred-million-year-old collision with the Large Magellanic Cloud that disrupted its normal dynamical state.
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1 month ago

Our Entire Galaxy Appears to Be Embedded in a Colossal Sheet of Dark Matter

The Milky Way - and in fact our entire galactic neighborhood known as the Local Group - appear to be lodged in a vast, extended "sheet" of dark matter flanked on each side by cosmic voids, new research suggests. The findings, described in a new study published in Nature Astronomy, could help explain the puzzling motion exhibited by our nearby galaxies, which seems to defy the gravitational influence of neighboring realms.
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