Astronomers are watching a nearby galaxy die in real time

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Astronomers are watching a nearby galaxy die in real timeIt’s one of those storied faraway galaxies, the kind noticed by long-ago Indigenous Australians who looked skyward and intrepid European sailors seeking direction as they explored. To the naked eye it looks like a very distant cloud, a puff of stars and cosmic gases glowing in distant outer space. It’s called the Small Magellanic Cloud,…


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