Large Magellanic Cloud

What Galaxies Can You Only See With a Telescope?

a telescope and a night sky with stars

Man’s curiosity is as vast as the Universe. People have endless questions about the different phenomena and the existence of things on Earth and beyond. The study about our favorite Milky Way Galaxy and some other galaxies has been around since the 17th century.  Besides our Milky Way, billions of other galaxies … Read more

Large and Small Magellanic Clouds

ALMA antennae in red light, onthe background are the southern Milky Way

Large Magellanic Cloud Named after the explorer, and Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, whose crew discovered these companion galaxies to the Milky Way during the first voyage worldwide (1519–22). It is called the Large Magellanic Cloud or LMC for short. It is not a cloud but a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way … Read more