[HN Gopher] New study shows Small Magellanic Cloud is two smalle...
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       New study shows Small Magellanic Cloud is two smaller galaxies
        
       Author : wglb
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2024-01-02 05:30 UTC (17 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (phys.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (phys.org)
        
       | netcraft wrote:
       | I do envy the southern sky for the SMC and LMC. (A good photo is
       | in the wikipedia article
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Magellanic_Cloud)
        
         | dylan604 wrote:
         | I've been to the southern hemisphere twice with the second one
         | being exactly 10 days later because I filled in for someone
         | else for the second trip. The first was to Australia during a
         | full moon, but the second was to New Zealand during a new moon.
         | I was like a giddy little school boy when I took my first
         | picture of the LMC. After getting my bearings on LMC/SMC and
         | Alpha/Beta Centauri, I was able to shoot a few timelapses of
         | the rotation and see how not having a singular "South Star" was
         | still able to see the "center" of the rotation. Unfortunately,
         | these trips were not a night sky viewing event, otherwise, I
         | would have spent much more time checking things out. I did take
         | the time I could though
        
       | PH95VuimJjqBqy wrote:
       | everything is a study nowadays, people abuse that word too much.
       | 
       | how do you figure that out without studying it? yeah, exactly.
        
         | s1artibartfast wrote:
         | Im actually curious what you think is and isnt a study.
        
         | mrintegrity wrote:
         | All houses are built nowadays, people abuse that word too much.
         | How do you get a house without building it? yeah exactly
        
       | award_ wrote:
       | Direct arxiv link, interesting stuff!
       | https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07750
        
       | irrational wrote:
       | I wonder if, from the more distant dwarf galaxy, if it would look
       | like the Milky Way and the closer dwarf galaxy are the same
       | galaxy.
        
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