Ever since its discovery 40 years ago, astronomers have wondered - TopicsExpress



          

Ever since its discovery 40 years ago, astronomers have wondered where the Magellanic Stream originated. And now they have their answer. The stream was, for the most part, stripped from the Small Magellanic Cloud around two billion years ago. The Small Magellanic Cloud is one of the dwarf galaxies that orbit our own. Computer models had predicted that the stream had been torn entirely from the smaller cloud, which is why astronomers were surprised to discover that a small part of the Magellanic Stream was also torn more recently from the larger of the Magellanic Clouds.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 00:07:56 +0000

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