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Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
4 days 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.
Science
fromNature
6 months ago

The emergence of globular clusters and globular-cluster-like dwarfs - Nature

Globular clusters form via multiple pathways distinct from dark-matter-rich dwarf galaxies, with unresolved origins and overlapping parameter-space objects posing formation puzzles.
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