Magellanic
Americanadjective
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In a separate study published in 2025, the same team found that the impact left a visible mark on the Large Magellanic Cloud.
From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2026
"The detection of icy COMs in the Large Magellanic Cloud provides evidence that these reactions can produce them effectively in a much harsher environment than in the solar neighborhood."
From Science Daily • Nov. 12, 2025
Sewilo and her collaborators plan to extend their work by examining more protostars in both the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds to explore how widespread these molecules may be.
From Science Daily • Nov. 12, 2025
Yet recent images captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope seem to contradict that notion by showing protoplanetary disks in a dwarf galaxy adjacent to our own Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud.
From Salon • Dec. 21, 2024
Not far outside the Galaxy there are almost certainly planets, orbiting stars in the Magellanic Clouds and in the globular clusters that surround the Milky Way.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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