Space. 28th Sep, 2022. For billions of years, the Milky Way's largest satellite galaxies the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds have followed a perilous journey. Orbiting one another as they are pulled in toward our home galaxy, they have begun to unravel, leaving behind trails of gaseous debris. And yet to the puzzlement of astronomers these dwarf galaxies remain intact, with ongoing vigorous star formation. esearchers have used spectroscopic observations of ultraviolet light from quasars to detect and map out the Magellanic Corona, a diffuse halo of hot, supercharged gas surrounding the
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September 28, 2022 - Space - For billions of years, the Milky Way's largest satellite galaxies the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds have followed a perilous journey. Orbiting one another as they are pulled in toward our home galaxy, they have begun to unravel, leaving behind trails of gaseous debris. And yet to the puzzlement of astronomers these dwarf galaxies remain intact, with ongoing vigorous star formation. esearchers have used spectroscopic observations of ultraviolet light from quasars to detect and map out the Magellanic Corona, a diffuse halo of hot, supercharged gas surrounding the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds. Shown here in purple, the corona stretches more than 100, 000 light-years from the main mass of stars, gas, and dust that make up the Magellanic Clouds, intermingling with the hotter and more extensive corona that surrounds the Milky Way. (Credit Image: © NASA/ZUMA Press Wire Service/ZUMAPRESS.com)