Author: Shannon Stirone / Source: WIRED
Let’s switch the warp drive to light speed and head to deep space. The first stop is a satellite galaxy that orbits our Milky Way called the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the most famous objects in the cosmos. Most galaxies have dwarf galaxies orbiting around them, just like moons orbit planets.
Consisting of gas and newly forming stars, the LMC is only about 1/100th the size of our galaxy, but with…The post Space Photos of the Week: A Tale of Two Galaxies appeared first on FeedBox.